linux-kernel - Re: Documentation files in html format?

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Message-ID: <20070809151533.GA4955@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:15:33 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Koch?= 
	<hjk@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation files in html format?

On 09-08-2007 17:26, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@...utronix.de> writes:
> 
>> Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 12:31 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
>>> Since the network device documentation needs a rewrite, I was thinking
>>> of using basic html format instead of just plain text. 
>> Why don't you simply use DocBook? Then the user has the choice to convert
>> to HTML, PDF, LaTex or whatever.
> 
> In my experience it tends to be challenging to actually find all the packages
> needed for that. And then it's incredibly slow -- seems to be much slower
> than gcc which is somewhat of an archivement. And at least for LinuxDoc TeX usually 
> can't even compile the result.
> 
> I would say the track record of existing DocBook deployment is not good enough
> to justify further use. Plain html can be converted into all these
> formats easily too and overall it makes a much nicer user experience.
> 
> Also I would expect much more people will know how to write html versus
> DocBook.

In case of some counting: my vote is for Andi! 

Down with DocBook!!! Go txt!!! Go html!!! Andi for president!!!

Jarek P.
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