[Geany] A few notes about Geany Newsletter

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:41:15 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:30:09 +0100, Frank wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:01:10 +0100
> >Dominic Hopf <dmaphy at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2011, 01:24 +0100 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
> >> > 
> >> > The 'development' is done transparent inside a public git
> >> > repository at
> >> > 
> >> > http://git.geany.org/newsletter/ 
> >> 
> >> Is there any special things to be done to generate the Newsletter?
> >> Or is it enough to generate it via the "usual" LaTeX tools like
> >> pdflatex and so on? Maybe it would be useful to add something like
> >> a README file in the Git repository, since potential contributors
> >> surely want to know how to preview their changes. 
> >
> >Issue one has been generated via calling 
> >pdflatex newsletter_1.tex 
> >for the pdf. The HTML Version has been created with 
> >htlatex newsletter_1.tex xhtml -cvalidate -interaction=batchmode
> >
> >For issue 2+ there will be some changes and at this point there will
> >be also a README ;) 
> 
> I still strongly recommend to use another source format for the
> newsletter. LaTeX might be great but for that kind of document I think
> some easy plain text markup language fits better (as we all already
> discussed).
> I'd suggest ReST as it's very easy and we use it already in Geany.

As you know my declination of doing this change is decreasing with
increasing number of requests..... ;)

Cheers, 
Frank 
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http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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