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[Phil Bull <philbull@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

Sorry, I've been away for a couple of weeks.

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:27 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> During our meeting this past weekend we came up with an idea to help
> us see how each of the various syntaxes would work for our doc
> project.  The general gist it to collect some text-only content from
> our various documentation repositories (Learning, Docs, and Manual),
> and then draft that content up in the different markups (Docbook v5,
> Mallard, DITA, and XHTML5).  We'll then see the pluses and minuses of
> each.  
> 
> I've put up a bzr repo at:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-contributors/ubuntu-docs/pool-sample-content  This is where we'll be able to store both the basic text, and (later) to store and view the content in the different markup formats.
[...]
> 2) Put the content into the different formats.  Format assignments are
> as follows:
[...]
> - Mallard - Phil Bull, we nominated you in your absence.  :)

I've started on the Mallard bits (the ubuntu-docs sample is complete).
I'm at GUADEC for the next week, but I'll hopefully have the Ubuntu
manual sample converted to Mallard soon too.

Phil

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Phil Bull
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