Hi Phil On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Phil Bull <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > Sorry, I've been away for a couple of weeks. > > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:27 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote: > > During our meeting this past weekend we came up with an idea to help > > us see how each of the various syntaxes would work for our doc > > project. The general gist it to collect some text-only content from > > our various documentation repositories (Learning, Docs, and Manual), > > and then draft that content up in the different markups (Docbook v5, > > Mallard, DITA, and XHTML5). We'll then see the pluses and minuses of > > each. > > > > I've put up a bzr repo at: > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-contributors/ubuntu-docs/pool-sample-content<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-doc-contributors/ubuntu-docs/pool-sample-content> > This is where we'll be able to store both the basic text, and (later) to > store and view the content in the different markup formats. > [...] > > 2) Put the content into the different formats. Format assignments are > > as follows: > [...] > > - Mallard - Phil Bull, we nominated you in your absence. :) > > I've started on the Mallard bits (the ubuntu-docs sample is complete). > I'm at GUADEC for the next week, but I'll hopefully have the Ubuntu > manual sample converted to Mallard soon too. > > Phil > > We were planning to combine content from each of the sources into just *one document,* and then re-create the content from that document into each of the different formats. That way we'd get an apples-to-apples comparison of each of the different formats. Sorry I haven't been more on top of this - I've been working lots of hours with my day job. This week should be a bit more open for me, though, and I should be able to do more on this. Thanks for sending out a note about this, though, Phil, and thanks for your help. Jim
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