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Re: Proposal: move forward to Sphinx



Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Thank you for these links.

> Are you aware that the transition to docbook was only completed about
> one month ago?  I am not sure there is the energy to attempt another
> complete transition of the manual, once again invalidating all submitted
> patches.

> (Sorry to be only negative, but I wanted to make sure you were aware of
> the docbook timeline.)

I believe the DocBook transition is what unlocked this work.  From the
slides, the proof of concept was created using pandoc to translate from
DocBook to reStructured Text, and my guess is that pandoc wouldn't have
been able to handle DebianDoc-SGML.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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