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Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2008, 19:00 UTC
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<20080731190034.GP32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org> wrote:
> I understand that but my point is that writing a book or a manual is too 
> big a task for a wiki.

That's probably subjective. There is http://wikibooks.org/, after all. ;-)

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> Anyway, if there is an interest to switch to LyX for the user manual, just 
> let me know. Ascii has a LateX backend* and LyX can import LateX so the 
> task should be easy.
> 
> * http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/latex-backend.html

Last time I checked it was actually broken, but dblatex can transform asciidoc's docbook output to latex, if that's really wished.

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