Re: User Docs for DebianEdu

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

While it is unclear to me if it is a good idea to leave the Debian wiki
when writing documentation, I leave that to others to figure out.

I just wanted to point out that when selecting source format for the
documentation, I strongly recommend using a format that can be converted
to docobok using pandoc, to be able to create good looking documentation
in both HTML, PDF and ePub format.  

It is also a very good idea to ensure the format selected is well
handled by po4a to allow the documents to be translated into non-English
languages using the tools currently used by translators of both the
Debian Edu documentation and free software, ref
<URL: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html >.

Note, since the blog post was written, we started using Hosted Weblate
to handle most translations, see
<URL: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-edu-documentation/ >
for the current status.

Personally I would recommend Restructured text (rst) over markdown, as
it has a richer vocabulary than markdown.  I recommend Restructured text
over Asciidoc as the latter is less well supported by po4a.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen