[csw-maintainers] ITP: opencsw-policy

[Peter FELECAN]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri Dec 31 06:20:24 -0500 2010:
>
>> IMO, LaTeX is less about backslashes than document format and good
>> typography. Other than using macros you don't need a lot of special
>> characters...
>
> We converted our documentation at work from texinfo to docbook as
> people didn't like the idiosyncrasies of texinfo (not strictly LaTex,
> of course).  Emacs makes editting the xml easy as it does most of the
> work and I'm sure vim offers similar functionality.
>
> I'd vote for docbook or asciidoc.  (I won't argue that LaTex produces
> nicer output though. :))

Docbook or even html as proposed by Phil is still SGML. Even with the
highly configurable Emacs it's a real PITA. Consequently, my vote goes
for asciidoc.

-- 
Peter