[This is an old message, but I'm going through some old threads on my todo, and I owed you a response.] On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:31:02PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > Conceptually I am in favor of semantic markup where possible. I find the > > resulting manpage a little harder to read, though. Is it possible for us > > to style it a bit more (e.g., such a simple table looks better, IMHO, > > without ascii-art borders). > > I really don't know (about styling docbook's tables). We can easily > switch off the outer borders in AsciiDoc. I do think the border-less table that you presented later in the thread looks good, modulo the row-span issue. And: > > Did you put the source up anywhere? I didn't see it, but it would be > > interesting to see how painful it is to write. > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mjg.git/shortlog/refs/heads/doc-use-tables I think the source remains pretty readable. So assuming you can solve the row-span problem, I think it is a positive change. > The docbook part of the toolchain makes me sick whenever I have to look > at it. I really wish AsciiDoc could output roff straight away. I find it Yes, I have also wished for that many times. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html