Worst Phobos documentation evar!

Mengu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 30 05:29:08 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 13:18:46 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:08 +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 05:36:47 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> > That should be possible (probably after a few improvements).
>> > I'm working on a few templates for alternate formats 
>> > including LaTeX, plain text, and well, now json. -- Andrei
>> 
>> Would it not be easier to just do a raw convert to XML and use 
>> XSLT to transform into other formats?
>
> And, of course, ASCIIDoc was invented to be a human usable 
> input to
> such a tool chain. Though now with ASCIIDoctor there is a 
> direct to
> PDF without using FOP or LaTeX.
>
> Markdown is inadequate for more than single page HTML, XeLaTeX 
> is
> incorrectly disliked by far too many people, ReStructured Text 
> is
> perceived to be Python specific,… ASCIIDoc wins.

coming from Python, i'm in favour of rST, markdown and asciidoc.


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