Re: collaborating with FedoraNEWS.ORG

[Karsten Wade <kwade redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:13, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 01:15 08/06/2004, Karsten Wade wrote:
> >On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:17, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Is there a possibility to just write the content and
> > > submit it instead of doing it in docbook itself?

> My most recent find is apt?
> 
> Pretty simple text format,
> java prog to convert to docbook.
> 
> I was amazed.
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/apt/

Perfect example.  If someone authored using the very easy APT syntax, it
would be simple to convert it to basic DocBook XML.

At that point, it is a fun exercise to go through and convert all the
<emphasis> tags to the proper choice (<computeroutput>, <screen>,
<command>, <application>, <filename>, etc.), as well as adding other
missing tags.

- Karsten
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