discuss: Some ideas for TLDP
Subject:
Re: Some ideas for TLDP
From:
"J. S. Evans" ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jan 2016 12:46:38 +0000
Message-Id: <1452948342.10909.3.camel@youvegotthe.info>
On Út, 2016-01-12 at 17:00 +0000, Paul Waring wrote:
> On 09/01/16 12:18, J. S. Evans wrote:
> > Some suggestions & talking points:
> >
> > - Move away from DocBook 4 to something a little more modern and
> > preferably
> > user friendly like LyX.
>
> I agree that DocBook 4 isn't very user-friendly, but I'm not sure
> that
> LyX is the right solution.
I only suggested LyX because it now handles DocBook natively without
needing extra plugins or converters. If we move away from it entirely,
I'd still use it and then use pandoc to convert it to whatever format
is chosen because I'm comfortable with it.
>
> Markdown is very simple to use for beginners and can be converted
> into
> various formats using pandoc:
>
> http://pandoc.org/
>
> I would be far more likely to contribute to TLDP documentation if I
> could get stuck in writing things instead of having to work out how
> DocBook and a complex build system go together.
>
