Re: gEDA-user: file format documentation section of manual

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am of the opinion that the individual who does the writing gets to
pick their tool. Others can always arrange for conversion to some other
tool/file format.

For those who have writen any geda documentation... much thanks...

Steve Meier 



On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:56, Al Davis wrote:
> On Monday 18 July 2005 04:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Can you and Dan and Harry live with radical changes to your
> > doc?  I do believe I would improve it, but it would look a
> > lot different.
> 
> Since I am not Dan or Harry, I can't speak for them, but if 
> someone were to come to me wanting to completely rewrite the 
> gnucap documentation, I would enthusiastically welcome the 
> contribution.  The documentation is the way it is because that 
> is all I have the time to do.  Making the documentation look 
> professional is a valuable contribution that a non-coder can 
> make.
> 
> On Monday 18 July 2005 04:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > I'd also jettison .tex and write it in OOWriter, and export
> > .pdf.  You could include both the .sxw and the .pdf files in
> > your distribution tarballs.
> 
> I take issue with this one.  Tex shows its best when it used for 
> large documents.  OOWriter is too much like Microsoft Word for 
> me.  I only use it for MS-word documents.  Even for MS-word 
> documents, I use Kword or Abiword instead if I can get away 
> with it.  I still use LaTeX for big stuff, but I use something 
> graphic like kword or lyx for small stuff. I am not sure I 
> could cope with a 500 page document in kword, lyx, oowriter, 
> MS-word or anything similar.
> 
> Whatever is used, it needs to be able to generate both .pdf 
> and .html., both with indexing and active links.  Of course it 
> also must be "free" in the same sense that our software is.
> 
>