Status on HgBook

Yawar Amin yawar.amin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 20:52:09 CDT 2010


Hi,

On 2010-11-04, at 11:01, Augie Fackler wrote:

>> […]
>> 1. convert the book from the ugly Docbook XML syntax to ReST syntax,
>>   which I find more light-weight. That makes it easier for both the
>>   editors and the translators.
> 
> I'm not sure that's a good move - ideally we'll be able to get a new
> dead tree edition out some day, and I think publishers are best set up
> to handle Docbook.

How about Org-mode? It can export to DocBook and even do the DocBook -> PDF conversion from within Emacs.

Admittedly one would need to use Emacs to hack on the docs then. :-)

Regards,

Yawar

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