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
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