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From: "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky@develer.com>
To: "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>
Cc: "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald@pfeifer.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: toplevel bootstrap (stage 2 project)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <030001c57c02$09c54830$0db82997@bagio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119965204.8059.71.camel@dyn9002219137>

Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:

>> Well, because Wiki is more attractive to people writing
>> documentation for several reasons (faster than writing a HTML/TeX
>> patch and submitting it for review, etc.). Maybe we should think if
>> we want to use the Wiki as our rapid documentation prototyping:
>> people could write documentation there for review, be refined by
>> others, and eventually converted to real TeX documentation.
>
> This is what i did with the decl hierarchy documentation i submitted
> as part of the decl cleanup patch.
>
> The Texinfo version took significantly longer than the wiki portion,
> but it was mainly just mechanical formatting, etc, where wiki knows what
> to do automatically or with a trivial command and Texinfo doesn't.

I believe we could conceive something to convert raw wiki text into texinfo
with our commands. It would handle the boring part of the conversion.

Giovanni Bajo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-22 13:25 CFT: " Paolo Bonzini
2005-06-22 19:00 ` Giovanni Bajo
2005-06-23  7:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2005-06-24 23:11   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2005-06-28  9:43     ` Giovanni Bajo
2005-06-28 13:27       ` Daniel Berlin
2005-06-28 17:00         ` Giovanni Bajo [this message]
2005-06-22 21:35 ` CFT: " Geoffrey Keating
     [not found] ` <m364w3hei3.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
2005-07-05  9:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2005-08-06 11:47 ` Joseph S. Myers

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