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Re: Moving to docbook markup

 

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 00:10 +0000, Stuart Langridge wrote:

> If we primarily care about HTML, and secondarily about PDF...why not
> write the book *in* HTML? See Mark Pilgrim's reasons for doing so for
> his books at http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/ and
> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-history-2009-edition and in particular I should note that HTML's a lot better known than DocBook is. :)

Hmmm,

Mark is pretty convincing. Sounds like HTML will the format in whic 99%
of the people read the manual, may was well just author in that.

Can you cause Yelp to load HTML like it's DocBook?

Cheers, Rick




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