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