Re: [PATCH 2/3] man: partial conversion to pod.

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] man: partial conversion to pod.\r
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+On Tue, Jan 14 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
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+> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> IMHO it is good idea to have common format where to produce man, info &\r
+>> html files. If we're going to need pandoc then the question of source\r
+>> format explodes with choices...\r
+>\r
+> Hi Tomi;\r
+>\r
+> I'm not sure how to interpret this. Are you in favour of using pandoc to\r
+> produce documentation?\r
+\r
+No if we can avoid it :D\r
+\r
+>  As you say we have more choice about source\r
+> format in that case. We could even try producing all of the\r
+> notmuch-emacs documentation from the common format (as opposed to just\r
+> part of it). On the other hand I guess the dependency would be a problem\r
+> for people using old linux distros, not to mention less common choices\r
+> like *BSD and OS X.\r
+>\r
+> One thing I haven't tried is generating info/notmuch-emacs.texi from\r
+> pod. I guess that would make sense if people felt strongly that one\r
+> format for all the docs is a priority. I worry a bit about the two step\r
+> pod -> texi -> info conversion process, but it's only a hunch.\r
+\r
+For emacs-only docs IMHO texi/info would suffice. But I quess some docs\r
+should be shipped both in info & man formats. for that we'd need such\r
+a conversion tools anyway...\r
+\r
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+> d\r
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+Tomi\r