A lot of copy/paste. :) Might be able to import the PDFs into OpenOffice, too.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Atanu Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gunnar, > > All for making things simpler. Which this should. > > I assume this means moving away from the asciidoc format. Will there be a > (big) migration effort? > > Thanks, > Atanu > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gunnar Tapper [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 9:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice instead of AsciiDoctor > > Hi, > > As you may have seen and/or experienced, it's not easy to work on our > documentation since you have to setup the build environment, run maven > builds, etc. And don't get me started on how clumsy it is to update > documentation. > > I propose that we rethink the whole Asciidoctor approach and move to Apache > OpenOffice instead, which is, of course, open source with a real word > processor. IMO, the use of Asciidoctor creates a huge barrier to > documentation creation. It is very, very cumbersome. > > In this model, we'd check in the OpenOffice source into the source tree. > The publication would be a little more manual in that you'd have to > generate the web pages and PDF files from within OpenOffice but I think > that's an OK tradeoff. And, we can probably figure out a way to script such > actions down the line. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Thanks, > > Gunnar > *If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right.* > > -- Thanks, Gunnar *If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right.*
