Re: ✘gpsdctl.adoc

[Andreas B]

Gary,

This is great. adoc, in my opinion, is appealing and easy to work with.

Good work!

Best,
Andreas

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:58 AM Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
>
> Yo All!
>
> I converted the gpsdctl man page to asciidoc, and updated scons to
> build html pages from .adoc files.
>
> The html result is here:
>
>     https://gpsd.io/gpsdctl.html
>
> A bit more whitespace than I would prefer, and some off styling, but
> workable.
>
> Comments?
>
> The big win is that .adoc is so much easier to work with than .sml
> (DocBook).
>
> pandoc does an OK .xml to .adoc conversion.
>
> ESR's docdoc fails, but might be worth fixing for this job.
>
> The end goal is no more xmlto, xsltproc or .xml.  Simpler, and a
> bunch of bugs will be left behind.
>
> RGDS
> GARY
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