[arch-releng] Use pandoc instead of make-doc.sh
Dieter Plaetinck
dieter at plaetinck.be
Tue May 15 16:40:19 EDT 2012
On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:32:35 +0200
Dario Giovannetti <dariogiova at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to propose using pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
> ) instead of the make-doc.sh script for converting the installation
> guide (Markdown syntax) to the document hosted in the wiki (MediaWiki
> syntax).
> I've tested it and the result looks pretty good, with only a few minor
> manual refinements required (which I volunteer to perform, if needed):
> instead of the current script, which practically produces an html
> document, we would get a correctly-formed, much neater MediaWiki document.
> This would greatly simplify further improvements in the wikification of
> the the guide, like the adaptation to ArchWiki's style standars.
>
> Thank you
>
> Dario
>
If you have a patch that I can apply, I'll try it out.
if the code using pandoc is more elegant, and the output result is comparable (and/or better), i'm up for it.
Dieter
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