Creating documentation

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 30 07:30:30 UTC 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dougie Richardson
<dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> If it's something more substantial, plain-text submission is fine. It
>> should be encouraged, even! When you're writing documentation, the most
>> important thing is the content, not the markup. I'd rather that new
>> contributors spent their time thinking about their writing rather than
>> grappling with DocBook.
>
> I think this is definitely something we should promote.

I've added a short section about submitting plain-text material in the
Getting Started section here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation

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