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Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement

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To: David Kastrup <dak@...>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@...>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>, <git@...>, <msysgit@...>
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 6:05 am

El 3/10/2007, a las 10:12, David Kastrup escribió:


Yes, that's still a problem...


Yes, but editing DocBook (XML) is relatively painful compared to  
editing plain text. You either have to rely on a bloated XML- 
validating editor or instead ask your doc authors to manually write  
valid XML (and I totally agree with Terrence Parr that, "XML makes a  
lousy human interface
"; see <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sbxml.html>  
for his full take).

I know that Linus has argued for AsciiDoc because the source *is* the  
plain text documentation and is therefore easily readable, but for me  
the real benefit lies in the fact that *because* the source is plain  
text it is easily edited (ie. that the source is easily *writeable*),  
and things like documentation patches are very neat with AsciiDoc.

Cheers,
Wincent

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Messages in current thread:
WIP: asciidoc replacement, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Oct 2, 8:42 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Oct 3, 12:48 am)
Re: [msysGit] Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 3, 7:50 am)
Re: [msysGit] Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, David Kastrup, (Wed Oct 3, 8:02 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Oct 3, 2:34 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, David Kastrup, (Wed Oct 3, 4:12 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Oct 3, 6:05 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Oct 3, 6:57 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Martin Langhoff, (Thu Oct 4, 2:55 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, David Kastrup, (Thu Oct 4, 4:58 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Martin Langhoff, (Thu Oct 4, 6:49 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Sam Ravnborg, (Wed Oct 3, 1:46 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 3, 2:57 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Sam Ravnborg, (Wed Oct 3, 3:21 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, David Kastrup, (Wed Oct 3, 6:25 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed Oct 3, 9:47 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, David Kastrup, (Wed Oct 3, 10:01 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Sam Ravnborg, (Wed Oct 3, 6:52 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Sam Vilain, (Tue Oct 2, 9:56 pm)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Oct 3, 2:40 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 3, 12:23 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 4, 12:13 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 4, 8:41 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed Oct 3, 9:55 am)
Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement, Jeff King, (Wed Oct 3, 12:51 am)
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