On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:07:24AM +0200, scl wrote: > Hi, > > Marco's post reminds me that I lately read about the GNOME > documentation project switching from DocBook to Mallard [1]. This is concerning. I never took Mallard as a big contender, since it doesn't solve any of the problems with DocBook. For writers, writing XML sucks. Now with Mallard we just say: "Hey - you just write less XML", but it will still suck. > I think this is considerable if we want to use GNOME's manpower > to contribute to GIMP's user documentation and it could also > have impact on the choice of translation tools. Yes, that is true. It feels a bit as if the documentation world splits apart again in terms of tools. I certainly can't understand from a users point of view, why we still want to keep XML. I can understand it from a technical point of view - yes ... Kind Regards -- Roman Joost www: http://www.romanofski.de email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
