Re: Attracting newbies

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:09:30 -0500
Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:

> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > So if we go with the wiki, we (or at least I) have to learn a new
> > markup language and resign ourselves that the work can't be used in
> > any other work.  If we go with another format, it needs a home and
> > we (or at least I) have to learn a new markup language.  Unless, of
> > course we don't need html and can do with pdf, ps, and plain text.
> > If so, does anyone other than me use Lout?

The berlios.de wiki is *very* easy to edit. Unfortunately not very
stable :(

> > I wonder if the frustration over all this lack of a documentation
> > infrastructure is a good reason why the documentation isn't as easy
> > to find as we seem to think it should be?
> >
> > Doug.
> >   
> The way I see it all that we'll need is HTML, PDF, and plain text.
> Plain text is the easiest to read through a terminal window, and it
> should be how we write the original documentation. Once we finish a
> full plain text version we can worry about converting it to other
> formats.

AFAIK it's easy to transform a markup language in plain text. The other
way around ... We will probably have to work in some format that can be
easily converted to plain text, html, pdf.

Regards,
Andrei
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