[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 07/02/2011 23:50, Russell Dickenson a écrit :
> On 8 February 2011 04:21, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:21:00 +1000
>> Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>>>>> Right now I started to put some content together into a LaTeX-file
>>>>>> which will be compiled to PDF and plain text and send out later
>>>>>> once its done.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would you mind sending the finished product to me?
>>>>>
>>>>> A question to Frank and others - do you mind in what format the
>>>>> newsletter's content is written in? I only have experience in using
>>>>> HTML and AsciiDoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/). I would
>>>>> *much* prefer to use AsciiDoc because it "is a text document
>>>>> format for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks,
>>>>> slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs. AsciiDoc files can be
>>>>> translated to many formats including HTML, PDF, EPUB, man page." I
>>>>> know that there are similar tools such as "plain text" markup
>>>>> languages but AsciiDoc is the one with which I have most
>>>>> experience.
>>>>
>>>> -1 for Latex, I know Frank is a Latexpert but they are a bit thin on
>>>> the ground, so having to do contributions in Latex would be limiting
>>>> (or would require Frank to do lots of conversion, and we want him to
>>>> have more time for other things :-).
>>>
>>> Yes. Sorry, but I not likely to contribute if I have to learn
>>> something like Latex. It's not something I'm using now, nor likely to
>>> use any time in the near future so I'm simply not motivated to learn
>>> it.
>>
>> I don't care much about the markup language. LaTeX on our level is not
>> more complicated as writing ReST etc. I guess.
> 
> I would prefer not to have to learn something like LaTeX but since
> there's a Geany plugin available, I'm happy to stick with LaTeX for
> the moment. As you suggest, Frank, since we're not writing complex
> documents I don't expect the LaTeX markup used to be very complex.
> I'll probably be doing a little cut-and-pasting if that's OK.
I'd personally prefer not to have to write LaTeX since I hardly know it,
and I'm not sure we need what LaTeX can give us that something like reST
couldn't.

However, since I'll probably not contribute that much (in the near
future at least), my POV doesn't matter that much. More a "2¢" then ^^

Cheers,
Colomban