Andrei's Google Talk

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:26:48 -0400, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>  Does ddoc output in pdf?  And besides, most of the tags *are* html  
>> tags, they're even the same tag name.  I can't imagine there's no  
>> htmltopdf program that would do exactly that.
>
> The reason they're the same is that the docs were originally written in  
> html. The original conversion to ddoc was done via search and replace.
> One of the HUGE benefits of ddoc is that it does highlighting of the D  
> code. That instantly saved Walter a lot of time.
> Seriously, converting it to ddoc did improve productivity.

Oh, I totally agree for the code samples.  And some of the other macros  
like $(V1).

But the manual markup, like marking every paragraph like this:

    $(P This is some text that is in a paragraph, and for some reason, we  
need a special
        tag for it instead of using &lt;p&gt;, one that is hard to find the  
closing
        tag for, because every tag's closing tag is simply a lone close  
parentheses
        like this:)

doesn't really make much difference than using <p>...</p>.  The advantage  
of using html tags for formatting like this means editors will recognize  
tags, and everyone and their mother knows what html tags look like.

-Steve