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Re: Proposal: move forward to Sphinx



Hi Sean and Russ,

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:39:33 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.

 Yes, exactly what Russ says, converting to DocBook could make it happen.
 So, it doesn't mean any waste of time and effort, DocBook format is
 **necessary** for next step.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane


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