PDF documentation

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-10-18, Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I would prefer if the source for the (PDF-)documentation would be
>> available in some open, free and widely used meta-language, e.g. LaTeX
>> (or XML or txt2tags or ..., but I'm oldschool and prefer LaTeX ;) ). So
>> everyone could build it's copy in whatever format he prefers or needs.
>
> Perhaps DocBook?  It is readily rendered as PDF or HTML.

Unfortunately DocBook can't be read/edited by a human.  IMO, Docbook
is only suitable as a machine-generated intermediate format.

I'd recommend one of the lightweight markup languages like asciidoc or
reStructuredText.  They're easy to read/write, perfectly usable in the
source form and can be rendered into PDF, HTML, ODT, DocBook, whatever.

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