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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to	markdown
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:00:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC2B6E2.8010603@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC2AA14.3000106@weilnetz.de>

On 11/15/2011 12:06 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 15.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Markdown is nice for separated specs and README files,
> but is it also possible to create a complete printed manual
> from all markdown files?

I think high quality information beats pretty formatting any day.  The problem I 
see with our current documentation strategy is that it's very monolithic (one 
big printed manual) and it's in a format that many people consider obscure.

I think small stand alone documents that are easy to author are going to result 
in a better end user experience than one big document with pretty formatting.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I thought of a different solution: keep qemu-doc.texi and qemu-tech.texi
> and integrate texi files made from markdown files (with pandoc) into
> these two documents to get complete manuals.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan Weil
>

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-15 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 22:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown Anthony Liguori
2011-11-14 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] docs: convert qed_spec.txt " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-14 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] docs: convert qcow2 specification " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-14 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] docs: convert ivshmem device spec " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-14 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] docs: convert acpi_pci_hotplug " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-14 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] docs: add readme to specifications directory Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15  6:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown Stefan Weil
2011-11-15  8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-15 13:44   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15 13:51     ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-15 13:56       ` Alex Bradbury
2011-11-15 17:25         ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-15 14:49       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15 18:06     ` Stefan Weil
2011-11-15 19:00       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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