Re: Bug tracker for skribilo

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

> I usually stay away from IRC since I find instant messaging too
> distracting. But then, I should probably not be complaining of
> loneliness! ;-)

I agree, it has pros and cons!

> Yep! jgart and the whereiseveryone community are already doing a good
> job organizing Guix meetups. We should probably organize "official"
> meetups.

Yes, we “just” need people to champion for each specific topic we might
want to tackle.  :-)

>> What I’d like to have is a Texinfo reader in Skribilo: Guile already
>> comes with a Texinfo -> stexi (similar to SXML) parser, so the reader in
>> Skribilo would be quite small.  The parser in Guile proper needs love
>> though: it’s good but not good enough to handle complete real-life
>> manuals, I think.
>>
>> Longer-term, we could also look at the Scribble syntax: unlike
>> Skribe/Skribilo, it’s text-first.  What if Texinfo became our own
>> Scribble-like syntax?  We’d extend Texinfo syntax with escapes that
>> would let us use custom markup or introduce Scheme code in documents.
>
> Normally, I'd have thought integrating Texinfo is too much work! ;-)
> But, it's probably the best way to migrate existing manuals such as the
> Guix manual into skribilo. So, we'll get there at some point! If anyone
> reading is interested in hacking on this, contributions are welcome! :-)

Yup!  I think all this is within reach, and we can make incremental
progress too, it’s not all-or-nothing.

Thanks,
Ludo’.