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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:55:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003135513.GR21675@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710030506360.28395@racer.site>

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 05:23:35AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > I do not want to depend on more than necessary in msysGit, and 
> > > therefore I started to write an asciidoc replacement.
> > 
> > It's pretty good, I certainly wouldn't have trouble reading or 
> > maintaining it, but I'll give you suggestions anyway.
> 
> Thank you very much!  (On both accounts...)
> 
> > nice work, replacing a massive XML/XSL/etc stack with a small Perl 
> > script ;-)
> 
> Uhm... It is less capable, though...

By the way, without having looked at your script to see it does, a
couple things I know of that the user manual relies on that other docs
may not as much are automatic table of contents generation, and cross
references.

I'd be similarly inclined to work on improving asciidoc rather than
inventing something new, but I guess it's at least interesting to see
how far your approach gets us.

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03  0:42 WIP: asciidoc replacement Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03  1:56 ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-03  4:23   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03  4:51     ` Jeff King
2007-10-03 13:55     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-10-04  4:13     ` Sam Vilain
2007-10-04 12:41       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03  6:40   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03  4:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03  6:34   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03  8:12     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-03 10:05       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 10:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-03 10:52           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-03 13:47           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-03 14:01             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-03 10:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03 17:46           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-03 18:57             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 19:21               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-04  6:55           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-10-04 20:58             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-04 22:49               ` Martin Langhoff
2007-10-03 11:50   ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 12:02     ` David Kastrup

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