[Gnu-arch-users] doc formats

[Thomas Lord]

Mark:

> Heaven forbid that we'd use DocBook
> (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/). 
> Or LyX  (http://www.lyx.org/).  Or even TeXmacs
> (http://www.texmacs.org/), for crying  out loud.


Those may be very fine tools but two of the three of them
don't provide anything at all like the functionality
I was talking about.

Docbook may very well be useful for this project but
not as the plain-text format and therefore, ideally,
not as the source form.


> Reinvent the wheel; that's the ticket.  I thought that I was reading  
> comp.lang.forth for a minute.

Nobody is reinventing the wheel.

-t