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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,
On 01/25/2011 01:39 AM, Kevin Godby wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Kyle Nitzsche
> <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > How about;
> >   1. identify requirements
> >   2. identify options
> >   3. discuss
> >   4. decide
> As long as we don't spend too long discussing. We need to decide
> fairly quickly because there's still a lot of work to be done
> regardless of which format is chosen.  The toolchain needs to be set
> up and the current text needs to be converted to the new format.  Then
> editing can begin/resume.
agreed.
> > Perhaps we can analyze this systematically on a wiki?
> >
> > This is probably somewhat incorrect and self-aggrandizing ( ;), but I throw
> > it out there to provide a format for information gathering and collective
> > decision-making:
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/10.10/DeveloperManual/SourceFormatAnalysis
> I've updated the LaTeX section.
the page says native source format of LaTeX is Unicode. I thought it was not 
because when writers added non-ASCII chars, the build broke and I replaced them. 
can you elaborate?
> --Kevin