Simon Marlow (simonmar@microsoft.com) wrote:
We already use DocBook XML, and I'm relatively pleased with it, except for the fact that it's far from easy to set up a working DocBook toolchain on your system unless your OS of choice is up to date and has a well-maintained set of DocBook packages.
I consider that the structure of the present ghc manual does not need such a rich markup as DocBook which is, imho, not very user-friendly. otoh, I'd prefer something simple (if you want to get contributions from more users) like 'txt2tags' (see e.g. http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html) which enables one to do lot with very simple markup. There are many targets supported, light sys-reqs, cli & gui, and even syntax highlighting for (g)vim, emacs, kate... Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD