From: Michael <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:19:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Message-ID: <200708041719.52682.barra_cuda@katamail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Saturday 04 August 2007 06:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It might be more worthwhile to research what other "Text-ish
> lightweight mark-up" systems are availble, and if there is one
> that is more efficient and can go to at least html and man,
> one-time convert our documentation source to that format using
> your Perl magic.  The minimum requirements are:
> 
>  * The source is readable without too much mark-up distraction;
> 
>  * Can go to roff -man;
> 
>  * Can go to html.

I know about txt2tags, but I'm not sure it will be the right choice.

http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/

It's in python, uses a markup similar to wiki, and can be used to
create documentation in man, html, plain txt.

But I haven't used it very much.