Can docbook and mallard co-exit? Yes - a proof of concept

[Matthew East]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Kyle Nitzsche
> <kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Phil Bull wrote:
>>> Hi Kyle,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 10:30 -0500, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>>>
>>>> Following my previous prototyping/implementation testing:
>>>>  (http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2010-January/014293.html)
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering whether we could open the door to some mallard without
>>>> moving to all mallard.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>  * With the exception of the ghelp url issue I could not resolve, it is
>>>> perfectly doable to have a docbook page have a link to mallard
>>>>  * this opens a path to experimentation and incremental implementation
>>>>
>>>
>>> I like this idea. Perhaps we can resolve to write new (desktop) docs in
>>> Mallard and link them in as you propose.
>
> I'd personally prefer to keep our work in a single markup if possible.
> Having multiple markups in the same tree is likely to be a bit
> confusing for new contributors, and would give the impression of
> having to learn more than one in order to work on these docs.
>
> For me I think the best plan is to

Whoops, didn't finish this sentence! I think the best plan is to
branch off and start testing Mallard as we discussed in the meeting
and on the relevant thread.

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Matthew East
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