Bug#175064: DocBook XML conversion is read with this script
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 at 11:32:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I am concerned that DocBook is much too complex to be used for Debian
> > policy. We need to people to write patches without trouble and we do
> > not have many editors available for fixing the XML. Debiandoc-SGML
> > virtue is that it is simple.
[...]
> The alternative, I guess, would be to use Markdown for the whole thing,
> but I think it's worthwhile to have sections and internal links and a bit
> more formatting than Markdown gives us.
asciidoc, then? Or Markdown with pandoc extensions?
asciidoc is another wiki-like language, but has semantics defined in
terms of Docbook rather than HTML.
Pandoc's Markdown dialect includes footnotes and explicit or implicit
anchors in headings.
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