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[Bryan Alsdorf <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Oleksandr "Sanja" Byelkin wrote:
> Daniel Bartholomew пишет:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:44:29 +0300, "Oleksandr \"Sanja\" Byelkin"
> > <sanja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Daniel> http://askmonty.org/buildbot/reports/test_markup.php
> >
> > Daniel> It's simple, but it does let you view the creole => html
> > Daniel> translation of your markup.  
> >
> > Oleksandr> It do not understand UTF-8 - it is really bad.

It understands UTF-8 now.

> > I disagree with saying "it is really bad" because it doesn't understand
> > UTF-8.
> >
> > Yes, the final system should definitely understand UTF-8, but this
> > isn't a final system, or even a prototype. It is just a *simple* page
> > for testing/previewing bits of creole-formatted content, and as such it
> > works well-enough to get the job done.
>
> Then I can't understand why we should:
>
> 1) build a new system
> 2) With pure printing abilities
>
> instead of picking up something already used for documentation and which
> converted to many formats?
>
> I was pretty satisfied with old MySQL system (forgot what it was but it
> generate a lot of formats), docbook also looks good enough.

We aren't creating a system for a plain manual, we are creating a knowledge base so the 
community can help us generate content and ask questions. This KB can be used for our 
manual as well. If we ever want a more formal manual, we can adopt the content of the KB 
into docbook, I think that is what MySQL still uses.

I guess I should do a presentation in Majorca about this.

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Bryan Alsdorf, Lead Web Developer
Monty Program, AB. http://askmonty.org