Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-20 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2020-01-19 21:56, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 2020-01-19 19:32, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-19 18:58, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: - A technical documentation does not need anything more than markdown offers. Markdown sources are good directly and with tools

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-19 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2020-01-19 19:32, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-19 18:58, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: - A technical documentation does not need anything more than markdown offers. Markdown sources are good directly and with tools help may be used to produce docs in others

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-19 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 19-01-2020 10:30, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-18 12:03, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 17-01-2020 15:00, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-17 16:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: Hardly any of the documentation in the docs-folder have links, and you can have links

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-19 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2020-01-18 12:03, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 17-01-2020 15:00, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-17 16:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: Hardly any of the documentation in the docs-folder have links, and you can have links in Markdown. No named paragraphs. I have no idea how to

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-18 Thread Artyom Smirnov
On 17.01.2020 16:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 2020-01-17 11:32, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 17.01.2020 08:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: That is the whole point of markdown: that it is a human-readable plain text file that can be converted to better looking HTML or PDF with a tool.   The main

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-18 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
18.01.2020 10:03, Mark Rotteveel wrote: When you diff, you need to read the source. And markdown is readable both in plain text and in rendered output. That means that even if you only look at the raw source, it is still readable. I personally write HTML in a plain text editor and have no

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-18 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 17-01-2020 15:00, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: On 2020-01-17 16:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: Hardly any of the documentation in the docs-folder have links, and you can have links in Markdown. No named paragraphs. I have no idea how to create a link to specific paragraph in MD.

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Jiří Činčura
I agree with Mark and Adriano. Especially for developer "docs". -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 17/01/2020 11:00, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: > > >> And if having HTML is important, I'd suggest to write the docs in >> markdown (or maybe asciidoc) and generate HTML as part of the build >> (eg using pandoc). That is what most other opensource projects do >> these days. For good

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
On 2020-01-17 16:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On 2020-01-17 11:32, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 17.01.2020 08:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: That is the whole point of markdown: that it is a human-readable plain text file that can be converted to better looking HTML or PDF with a tool.   The main

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
17.01.2020 14:29, Mark Rotteveel wrote: For good reasons: authoring and diffing is easier compared to HTML Laziness in HTML editing with Office Suites is not a good reason IMHO. Hand-written HTML has no difference from hand-written markup. -- WBR, SD. Firebird-Devel mailing list, web

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2020-01-17 11:32, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 17.01.2020 08:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: That is the whole point of markdown: that it is a human-readable plain text file that can be converted to better looking HTML or PDF with a tool. The main feature of HTML/PDF is not a "better look" but a

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-17 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
17.01.2020 08:14, Mark Rotteveel wrote: That is the whole point of markdown: that it is a human-readable plain text file that can be converted to better looking HTML or PDF with a tool. The main feature of HTML/PDF is not a "better look" but a fast navigation between parts with hyperlinks

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 2020-01-16 18:14, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 16.01.2020 18:10, marius adrian popa wrote: This might help with some documentation that is in html format and to generate the md version What the point to change the format that can be displayed out-of-box on any OS to the format that requires

Re: [Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-16 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
16.01.2020 18:10, marius adrian popa wrote: This might help with some documentation that is in html format and to generate the md version What the point to change the format that can be displayed out-of-box on any OS to the format that requires preprocessing with some third-party tools to

[Firebird-devel] Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

2020-01-16 Thread marius adrian popa
This might help with some documentation that is in html format and to generate the md version https://github.com/xijo/reverse_markdown https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/doc/Using_OO_API.html For example Using OO api is public only on ibase.ru in html format