Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758984AbXHITMs (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750732AbXHITMf (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:12:35 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:58849 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752131AbXHITMe (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:12:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:10:36 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Andi Kleen Cc: =?unknown-8bit?Q?Hans-J=C3=BCrgen?= Koch , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Documentation files in html format? Message-ID: <20070809191036.GA23596@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20070809113122.3aa508e4@oldman.hamilton.local> <200708091508.20626.hjk@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 23 Andi Kleen : [...] > I would say the track record of existing DocBook deployment is not good enough > to justify further use. Plain html can be converted into all these > formats easily too and overall it makes a much nicer user experience. xsltproc converts from docbook to html fast enough (PDF with a docbook Java/fop toolchain is a different story). Your experience is a bit outdated. > Also I would expect much more people will know how to write html versus > DocBook. Yes, it is easy to write more or less random html. I'd even prefer plain utf8 text. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/