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markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 30, 2008, 13:27 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0807291957410.1779@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
Hi,
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Julian Phillips wrote:
> there does exist at least one tool that claims to be able
> to convert from markdown to man: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

Just want to mention that it is written in Haskell, so chances are that it is even harder to install than asciidoc (I am thinking about non-Linux, of course).

Note also that Markdown cannot create TOCs automatically, AFAICT. So probably it would be not all that easy to convert the User Manual to that format.

If at all, I would have preferred a format switch to Wiki syntax so that we can use the same source on the Git wiki as in our Documentation/ directory. But such a switch could only come after a consensus of the Community anyway.

Ciao, Dscho

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  3. Petr BaudisJul 29, 2008
  4. Scott ChaconJul 29, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008
  6. Julian PhillipsJul 29, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008
  8. markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community BookJohannes Schindelin, Jul 30, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2008
  10. Wincent ColaiutaJul 30, 2008
  11. Scott ChaconJul 31, 2008
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