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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this will make me sound like a dope, but what about mallard? Is
that not the the XML schema of the future for help on the desktop?

Cheers, Rick

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:50 -0600, Belinda Lopez wrote:
> 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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