RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-16 Thread Simon Marlow
On 14 November 2005 08:32, Gour wrote: > Nobody said that DocBook does not work fine. However let me quote > SPJ's message: > > > However, I still wonder if there are things we could do that would > make > it easier for people to contribute. Here are two concrete > suggestions: ^^^ > - M

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Ketil Malde
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Hmm, MediaWiki already supports the concept of discussion pages. Yes, I know. Perhaps I was less than lucid, so to clarify: But I doubt that it's a good thing to maintain DocBook sources via a wiki. I think it would be best to keep the documentation in DocBook a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Ketil Malde
Gour wrote: Nobody said that DocBook does not work fine. However let me quote SPJ's message: However, I still wonder if there are things we could do that would make it easier for people to contribute. Here are two concrete suggestions: ^^^ - Make it possible for people to add comments,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:22 schrieb Gour: > [...] > But don't forget, as it was already stated, get the whole working-chain > ready for authoring in Docbook is not at all ready and for one not > proficient in emacs with SGML mode it is very difficult to write texts with > so many tags. Yo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 14. November 2005 10:49 schrieb Ketil Malde: > [...] > I think it would be ideal to provide the documentation on the web as > now, but linking to wikified talk pages. Something like Wikipedia, > (since MediaWiki was brought up) but perhaps with restricted write > access to the "feature

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: > [...] > > The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some > > points not well thought-out. > > True, but considering the present situation, it is all what is required. I doubt this. How, for example, do you implement code s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:03 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: > > [...] > > > > The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some > > > points not well thought-out. > > > > True, but considering the present situation, it is all wh

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Gour
Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Great! If you have already an XML editor, start writing DocBook now! :-) No, I won't :-) > More seriously: This is again a useless tools discussion, we *are* using > DocBook currently and it works fine. The real problem is not the XML format > and any XM

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-14 Thread Krasimir Angelov
2005/11/13, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output > > formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain text, etc. etc. > > txt2tags has the following backends: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Panne
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:22 schrieb Gour: >[...] > Besides that, 'txt2tags-like technology' is already in use for some time > - e.g AFT (http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html) dating back in '99 > and XMLmind XML Editor has plugin which supports (similar) markup called > APT (http://www.xm

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output > formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain text, etc. etc. txt2tags has the following backends: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, man, Magic Point, Moin Moin, Page Maker 6.0 &

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Panne
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: > Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >[...] > > The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some > > points not well thought-out. > > True, but considering the present situation, it is all what is required. Well, that's

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The font size is much smaller than the font size of other webpages. So if I > would change the default font size to give good results with the Haskell > website, all other websites would have their text in very large letters. Well, haskell.org has

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The most important question is: Does txt2tags use logical markup? A kind of, e.g. = title = == subtitle == === subsub...=== if this is logical ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD __

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In addition, one could argue that since newsgroups were specifically > designed for discussions, newsgroup software allows proper mangagement > of threads but, well, current e-mail programs might do this in similar > quality. >From the most plain mail