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Re: Converting Texinfo to DocBook

From: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2002-11-05 03:59:08 CET

cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:50:51AM -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > > This may be relevant for the SVN book authors.
> > >
> > > "Arnold Robbins explains how he transformed Texinfo into DocBook
> > > for Effective Awk (for O'Reilly)."
> > >
> > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/2002/11/01/awk3.html
> >
> > Is this the direction Subversion is going? Currently I see four
> > distinct documentation formats in the project: plain text, emacs
> > outline, texinfo, and docbook. That does seem like a lot. It might
> > be best to standardize on two of them. Say, docbook format for
> > formatted docs, and emacs outline for everything else.
>
> I definitely would like to see the texinfo disappear in favor of
> docbook for formatted documents.

+.9

I'm all for this, but don't know that I'll have time to do any more
texi->docbook conversion while we're working on the book.

-Fitz

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