On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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
