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[Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,
  I wanted to bring up the discussion about moving docbook markup and 
away from the current latex-based toolchain.  There are several reasons 
for this; most important is the need for html output.  We started with 
the toolchain being used by the manual project b/c I knew it worked for 
PDF output but was recently made aware that we really need html first 
and the PDF is secondary to that.  That along with the translations 
being easier, made me conclude that the docbook-based toolchain has many 
benefits.  So I'm proposing that we migrate to docbook and I'll take the 
brunt of the work doing the markup and creating a new branch.  Kyle has 
offered to continue working on some better tools for the make process 
and we'll continue to refine the toolchain along the way.  So if there 
are no strong objections, I'd like to propose that we migrate the 
project to a docbook-based toolchain.

Everyone has done a great job of pitching in and I hope we can count on 
your help as we keep moving forward.

thanks,

Belinda

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