> On 25.04.2017, at 21:57, L. Aaron Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Agreed. Unfortunately latex needs to go.
See my other mail…
Best regards
-Tobias
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>> On 25 Apr 2017, at 19:02, Johannes Burk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding to the discussion about bringing some breath of fresh air into
>> this project we should also think about of how to reduce the threshold of
>> participating.
>> Beside the ideas already mentioned by some on this list (an explicit call
>> for help/contributions and providing a guide about how to contribute) I want
>> to propose a slightly more drastically step: Stop using latex and switch to
>> a more intuitive and human readably language, making contributions as easy
>> as editing a wiki page. But we have not to stop using latex completely nor
>> abandon the PDF as the final product. It’s just necessary to rethink the
>> build chain. Using markdown as the language to write the document (or maybe
>> just as an option for contributions) and a converter like pandoc would allow
>> to easily contribute but also using latex for advanced formatting and get a
>> PDF as the final product.
>>
>> I saw there was already a thread about conversion to markdown/RST a year ago
>> (march 2016). But the discussion ended without any final conclusions.
>>
>> Just my two cents,
>> Johannes (a silent listener on this list, so I’m sorry for using the “we”
>> phrasing)
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