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From: Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org>
Subject: Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book
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Stephan Beyer wrote:
> They're "lightweight" markup for documentation, very easy to read and somehow
> easy to write for non-developers.
> The user manual can give you an impression:
> 	http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=Documentation/user-manual.txt
>
> I think, this is easier than LyX for users and developers..

I just had a look at the user manual and, well unless you have a special 
emacs mode or whatever that can automate the markup tag insertion, I 
wonder how can anybody think that writing with this markup language is 
easier than within LyX, really (genuine question, not sarcasm).

Abdel.