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Re: Asciidoctor status / thoughts about formats

 

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:27:35AM +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 06:56:13PM -0500, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm going to try to get the work Johannes started[1] complete so we can
> > move to asciidoctor.
> > 
> > Right now the main blocker is CJK font support. You can see more details on
> > the MR; I'm going to reach out to asciidoctor community to see if anyone
> > has a working solution for this other than the unmaintained KaiGen Gothic
> > package (this font doesn't even seem to be very available anymore).
> > 
> > One question: do we really need to maintain PDF and ePUB support?  I would
> > honestly rather spend time writing documentation than working on the bugs
> > associated with the multiple format build system, but I will keep working
> > on it if there is a good reason to.

For the time being IMHO it's ok to disable the generation of these files
for a while... if you won't, I'll investigate on how to re-enable those
generators afterwards...

BTW well done devs!

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Saluton,
Marco Ciampa


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