Re: future of PEAR

On 11 Nov 2003 at 20:53, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Tue Nov 11, 2003 at 08:2057PM +0100, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > > Correct. It's a real torture to do docbook stuff, if you do not > > handle that in everyday work. > > I do not want to promise too much, so please don't take it at face > value yet. Anyway: The PEAR Group is currently evaluating reST [1] as > an alternative to Docbook. This will help developers to more easily > write documentation. > > The remaining thing that needs to be figured out, is a smart way to > integrate the reST markup into peardoc's XML structure. > > [1] http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html Just a while ago I read an article in the German Linux Magazine about editing docbook using OpenOffice. Wouldn't that be a point that could be followed further? Like, writing a doc for everybody how to use common and freely available tools like OpenOffice to write docs? So wouldn't following the way of docbook be a good idea since it's a settled standard for writing docs - although hard to do without appropriate tools, agreed. Stefan