On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'd second putting a "doc" section to the CVS (although I've come to hate Sourceforge's bad reliability in regard to cvs-access, grrr)
There is a doc section already, I have put Damien Henry's pd-msg package there. You are right with the SF CVS access, it has gotten worse the last few month. Hope they do something about it.
I think, at first we should not force a certain format of the tutorials on the authors. In the end, I think, HTML is not a good storage format. Something like Python's reStructuredText [http://docutils.sourceforge.net/] or a sgml/xml format [http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/] will be easier to convert to different output formats, like doing a printed book and such.
But discussing formats will only keep us away from doing the needed writing work, so I propose to allow any kind of format except binary document formats. To clarify: No MS-Word documents!
Plain HTML is not that bad after all, as a beginning. Its better to start working than having the barrier of having to learn yet another system. ...
Guenter