[Cuis-dev] XML in Erudite

Mariano Montone marianomontone at gmail.com
Sun Jun 16 10:02:26 PDT 2024


Hi Hilaire.

Yes, I agree with you. I'd like to implement Docbook support.

Cheers,

     Mariano

El dom, 16 de jun de 2024, 11:26, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> escribió:

> Hi Mariano,
>
> This is cool! For example it will ease the translation of documentation to
> be then view in Erudite.
>
> I already use Erudite for small integrated documentation about programming
> sketch with DrGeo, directly in the Smalltalk Sketch editor.
>
> Documentation will be important for my other project "Revisiting
> dynabook", and to have the documentation in an exchangeable format is
> really a plus.
>
> Supporting docbook is likely what may prove to be the most useful and
> simple for you. It is plain XML (Libreoffice can produce docbook 4,
> standard of 2006, docbook 5 is from 2016) and largely supported with
> conversion tool. It is the pivot neutral format to then convert to other
> format. Erudite may just need to support a very small subset of docbook,
> far enough for meaningful use.
>
> You are right we need to have support for extension, or may be
> cannibalizing existing element, i.e. programlisting, code, classname, etc.
>
> Hilaire
>
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