Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Oct 3, 2007, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20071003135513.GR21675@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710030506360.28395@racer.site>

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:23:35AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > I do not want to depend on more than necessary in msysGit, and 
> > > therefore I started to write an asciidoc replacement.
> > 
> > It's pretty good, I certainly wouldn't have trouble reading or 
> > maintaining it, but I'll give you suggestions anyway.
> 
> Thank you very much!  (On both accounts...)
> 
> > nice work, replacing a massive XML/XSL/etc stack with a small Perl 
> > script ;-)
> 
> Uhm... It is less capable, though...

By the way, without having looked at your script to see it does, a couple things I know of that the user manual relies on that other docs may not as much are automatic table of contents generation, and cross references.

I'd be similarly inclined to work on improving asciidoc rather than inventing something new, but I guess it's at least interesting to see how far your approach gets us.

--b.