Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

[Avi Kivity]

On 11/15/2011 03:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 02:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax.  This series
>>> converts
>>> them to markdown.  markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining in
>>> popularity.
>>>
>>> The big advantage of using markdown is that there are tools that can
>>> convert it
>>> to relatively simple HTML.  That means we can build a make
>>> infrastructure that
>>> generates a nice set of static web pages.
>>>
>>> The syntax is also more human friendly than mediawiki syntax.
>>>
>>> To see what the stylized version of this looks like, check out:
>>>
>>>    https://github.com/aliguori/qemu/tree/markdown/docs/specs
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nice.  Suggest you enable rename detection, to make patches like these
>> easier to read (not that it truly matters in the particular case).
>
> I haven't figured out yet how to make this sane to merge, but I've
> also converted qemu-doc.texi to a bunch of separate markdown files[1].
>
> The info is fairly out of date.  I'll try to get patches out RSN so
> that we can all take a pass at trying to modernize some of the
> sections before the release.
>
> [1] https://github.com/aliguori/qemu/tree/markdown/docs/manual
>

Does markdown support rendering into man pages?

A similar alternative is asciidoc, which is used by git.

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