Re: [Gnu-arch-users] doc formats

[matthew hannigan]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:35:35PM -0800, Thomas Lord wrote:
> 
> Mark:
> 
> > Heaven forbid that we'd use DocBook
> > (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/). 
> > Or LyX  (http://www.lyx.org/).  Or even TeXmacs
> > (http://www.texmacs.org/), for crying  out loud.
> 
> 
> Those may be very fine tools but two of the three of them
> don't provide anything at all like the functionality
> I was talking about.
> 
> Docbook may very well be useful for this project but
> not as the plain-text format and therefore, ideally,
> not as the source form.

John A M mentioned ReST is in fact very close to
this ideal.

Quick reference here:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html


Matt