On Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:26:28 PM UTC-4, Robin Powell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:29:46AM -0700, TR NS wrote:
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> On Sunday, September 14, 2014 9:30:18 AM UTC-4, Robin Powell wrote:
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> > That sounds like you're talking about doing it by hand?
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> > If so, I think you're badly underestimating how cross-reference
> > heavy (i.e. index and glossary entries) this book is; that's a
> > staggering amount of work.
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> > More importantly, the problem with by-hand changes is that it's hard
> > to demonstrate that the *content* hasn't changed. I would
> > definitely consider the burden of proof that the text is all the
> > same to be on you in that case.
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> Here's a preliminary example of chapter
> 1: https://github.com/trans/cll/blob/markdown/source/01.md (better to look
> at it in raw format in you favorite text editor though)
Without intending to discount your hard work, the source is not all
that interesting to me; how do the HTML and PDF outputs look?
Ah. I was wondering if maybe I wasn't being clear. Sorry.
This has little if any impact on the output. That would be exactly the same as it is now. The markdown is only acting as an initial format. It gets transformed into HTML/XML. Then with a few additional rules (e.g. `p` == `para`) this is then transformed by the same means that have been used (docbook) or you are working on (Ruby). It's no different. The markdown is just another layer to top to make the source formats more human friendly. (Which, after all, is what markup formats like markdown are all about).
I hope that clarifies things.