Hi,
Thanks for quick reply. On Sun, 2026-10-11 at 20:03 -0700, Osman Vielma wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > Thank you for taking the time to discuss this. My first message did not > explain the use case clearly. I am not proposing to replace HTML or PDF. > ... > repository and no tag was overwritten. I have attached chapter 3, "The system > initialization", from that proof of concept, plus a screenshot of a local GFM > preview showing a table and a code block. The screenshot is not from Obsidian > or Markor. Some links in the chapter point to other chapters and need the rest > of the files beside it. > This looks reasonable. > I understand your wish to avoid another output format and an extra build > dependency. Markdown-compatible text as an improvement to the current TXT > output sounds worth exploring. Pandoc was used for this proof of concept; it > was not intended as a required implementation choice. Your suggestion of going > directly from XML through XSLT makes sense as a direction to investigate. > It is non-trivial. Using pandoc inplace for w3m maybe much easier to impliment addressing all the corner cases. FYI: See my draft MR https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-reference/-/merge_requests/31 > This is still a sample of the desired output, not a ready-to-merge build > patch. The attached files show the use case and the table rendering. > Can you share your code. So I can leverage it to make it ready for merge. Osamu
