Re: doc source format -- rationale
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:20:28PM -0500, John Gabriele wrote:
> Anyhow, for my own docs I recently started using Texinfo,
Please don't :)
> and I've
> been quite happy with it. It actually surprised me to see that Debian
> doesn't use Texinfo, and I was curious if anyone could explain to me
> why the choice was made to not use it.
I don't know about the reasons of the project but I suppose they
are similar, if not identical, to my own: if localization is has
severe limitations.
<URL: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/l10n_rant0.html > states:
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Unfortunally, the Texinfo manual states: "Texinfo has some support for
writing in languages other than English, although this area still needs
considerable work". That's why there is no big project of translating
the manuals written in that format at this time. We will have to wait
for the end of the internationalization of these tools (or ask the
original documentation authors to switch to DocBook XML ;)
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I'm under impression that this is still correct. IMO XML has come here
to stay. Although it's often overy complex there is so much support
for XML that it's more often than not feasible and it does support
Unicode.
I am not quite sure but I think I cannot write my surname in texinfo.
Again, I might be wrong, all I need for that is ISO-8859-1 support.
Then again, I don't write it correctly in my signature because
localization sucks so much :/
Please correct me if/when I'm wrong.
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