question about documentation

Kai Blin k.blin at gmx.net
Mon Oct 9 11:48:19 GMT 2000


Sitting at the campfire, Gerald Carter told:
> rszczesniak at mis.com.pl wrote:
> > 
> > I got one question. Should I write polish translation 
> > of samba docs in YODL format only ? It may be 
> > imporant, because I've already translated
> > some man pages (looks good :) ) in native 
> > man format (groff).
> 
> Tridge, Jeremy,
> 
> Can I bring up the issue of writing docs in 
> YODL format again?  Will I be punished openly 
> for doing so?  :-)
> 
> Here's is my justification.  Requiring volunteers to learn
> a non standard markup language makes it harder for them.
> Can we settle on a more standard format that will still
> allow for generating text, HTML, and man pages?

You mean like SGML/Docbook DTD?? :) Like the LDP does?? :)
I'm in. :)
 
> [ducking as he runs....]

That's a me too... :)

Greets,
Kai

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Kai Blin, Sysop
University of Tuebingen
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