GNOME doc happenings

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

Sorry for the typos in my prior email.  The third link is actually a link to
some sample syntax for Mallard.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A lot of doc-ground got
> covered at a recent Writing Open Source conference in Owen Sound,
> Ontario, Canada.  I won't attempt to cover everything here, but would
> like to at least point the group to the GNOME doc mailing list [0],
> and to the blogs of Shaun McCance [1], and Paul Cutler [2].  They seem
> to be covering a lot of ground here in a short period of time, so I
> didn't want our team to miss out on what was being covered.
>
> A few items of note:
> - Both myself, Phil Bull, and Milo Casagrande were in attendance from
> the Ubuntu-doc team
> - Shaun McCance has developed a new xml-based doc syntax called
> Mallard. It has both an easier syntax than docbook, and offers up some
> interesting features that are not present in docbook.  Mallard docs
> are currently able to be displayed in current builds of Yelp* & the
> GNOME doc team has already built sample documentation for Empathy
> using Mallard.
> - Unrelated to the conference activities, the Serna free XML Editor is
> being released in an Open Source license [4] (exact license unknown).
> I am hopeful that the license will be one that will allow
> redistribution via our repos. If that's the case, then docbook (or
> DITA) docs could be written in by contributors through a desktop
> WYSIWYG interface, making doc contributions much easier for new
> contributors.
>
> Jim
>
> [0] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2009-June/thread.html
> [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/
> [2] http://www.silwenae.org/blog/
> [3] http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/mallard/spec.html<http://www.gnome.org/%7Eshaunm/mallard/spec.html>
> [4]
> http://forum.syntext.com/syntext-serna-xml-editor/serna-open-source-discussion/226-serna-free-xml-editor-goes-open-source-soon-help-us-build-community.html
>
> * Mallard-based docs can also be output to HTML.
>
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