On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ian Romanick wrote:
Attached is the initial rough-draft of the design document for the next generation memory manager. It is currently plain-text. When I polled people on #dri-devel the consensus was that plain-text would be the most useful format. I suspect at some point I may change to HTML or
Have a look at apt -- Almost Plain Text. It is just as light -- or lighter! -- than what you used in the draft. It is easy to get HTML, LaTeX, pdf, ps, rtf, and DocBook from apt.
The license is LGPL - it used to be GPL. You can have cross-references, tables, external URL references, images, etc. The only potential downside is that the tools are written in Java -- on the other hand that makes them pretty cross-platform. http://www.xmlmind.com/aptconvert.html (it's a free product from a French company that used to be called pixware - they restructured recently and are now called xmlmind) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook/2002-12/msg00095.html (a happy user -- also uses it to convert to DocBook format for the Zealots ;) ) Other people who more or less reinvented the same system: http://cmf.zope.org/doc/user/UsingStructuredText.txt http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html I have no experience with those formats but I /have/ used apt and it is wonderful :) On my home page is an example -- look for the bochsdoc links. I'm afraid I never got around to completing the document -- rsi and a new job I started at soon after posting that draft :-/ http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/studerende/firefly/ -Peter ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
