Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
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- Aug 4, 2007, 05:52 UTC
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes: > > > It's worth noting that we're a substantial portion of the asciidoc user > > base, at least based on asciidoc's "Projects using AsciiDoc" page. We > > could probably be influential in the asciidoc development if we tried > > (maybe starting with a config file mechanism for controlling what > > characters are markup instead of literal, so that we'll be able to make > > documents which will work the same with all versions of asciidoc). > > Tempting, but... > > * The breakage that triggered this thread was not about asciidoc > but about docbook-xsl. AsciiDoc project cannot do much about > it. > > * The slowness while formatting our manual pages are 50% from > xmlto toolchain and even if AsciiDoc were were to be sped up > 20x, we will still spend 4-5 minutes to format ~140 manual > pages.
For the latter, asciidoc ought to be able to generate manpages. Not sure what to do about docbook (for the user manual); it seems generally prone to compatibility problems. Perhaps we should go through latex instead, since that's extremely stable these days, or go straight to html.
-Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*