Re: markdown 2 man, was Re: Git Community Book

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes [off-list ref] wrote:

I understand that but my point is that writing a book or a manual is too 
big a task for a wiki.

That's probably subjective. There is http://wikibooks.org/, after all.
;-)

Anyway, if there is an interest to switch to LyX for the user manual, just 
let me know. Ascii has a LateX backend* and LyX can import LateX so the 
task should be easy.

* http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/latex-backend.html

Last time I checked it was actually broken, but dblatex can transform
asciidoc's docbook output to latex, if that's really wished.