From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [Patch 3/5] Create html documents for all files in Documentation/RelNotes Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:49:12 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhapvwjef.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <505841759.269631.1349538675925.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net> <343092834.269729.1349538958985.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net> <20121006192105.GA17895@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vmwzyovg3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <507BF806.1030709@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Thomas Ackermann , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 22:49:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TNrbL-0006SU-1w for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:49:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754812Ab2JOUtQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:16 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:46088 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754634Ab2JOUtP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:15 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619478921; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:14 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=PVAOPnkkiHZYDit43C3BjgFyBOo=; b=jX3jEN HmB3fKLk2+TIzNklX7hUORq3F4LrjXDUIW337K/JHzmFdEjtdT0ChjRFaFM0WI4S qwhRqPuSkFDuQkxOPxxiIyE1fQYQvY2B9ZGxxR2j0VF8grs7a0nkYOzZwP9G76zk vWL53cm+6B/06ZHvCqNz1+OqplYTvnQEW0RgY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=eyf50sumVf2Xo/+sQ90SCTsYa3PNgsMk iUdQDRW6tC9XqaiEXfyeuUy+tFaauaIaH1tR9cINq8CJKo945pPpRy4ONvom/NCb Jm3GghCCXohq33KZcx9E56gpyNTJ5tB4hlh8Fp6q+ayDK4w6i8P+jYwyNe6Fskh1 yz3nLhvCKfY= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9E48920; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6D19891F; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <507BF806.1030709@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:48:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C721EF3C-1709-11E2-90C9-BB652E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber writes: > Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 07.10.2012 22:53: >> Jeff King writes: >> >>> [1] I would not be surprised if they do not actually format all that >>> well. Though they are written in an asciidoc-ish style, they have >>> not traditionally been formatted, and I suspect there are many small >>> errors (like improper quoting of metacharacters) in them. >> >> They aren't even "errors". As far as I (who writes the release >> notes) am concerned, they are straight text without any asciidoc >> or markdown mark-up. > > I'm wondering: If it's neither markdown nor markup then what is it: > marklevel, markeven or markstraight? They are called plain text. > On a different note: Is pdf really the format of choice for mobile > platforms? I'd expect something that is "formatted" (markup) but can > reflow text intrinsically, not only by making your pdf reader jump > through hoops. HTML? Yeah, I've been wondering if epub or something might be a better target myself.