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Re: What's needed for mutt 1.6?



On 2007-02-28 09:47:07 +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Just a very stupid idea: why not play with asciidoc a little? It should 
> do all what we want, we could finally simplify makedoc a lot and still 
> get all output we want. Plus: the manual would be much easier to hack 
> on, much smaller in size, etc. With some XSLT magic I think it could be 
> more or less easy to create an initial asciidoc-based document.

I've always disliked wiki-like formats. They are not robust enough.
DocBook, as being XML, allows transformations much more easily (e.g.
with XSLT), has a useful validation mechanism and more semantics.

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