toplevel bootstrap (stage 2 project)

[Giovanni Bajo]

Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:

>> Well, because Wiki is more attractive to people writing
>> documentation for several reasons (faster than writing a HTML/TeX
>> patch and submitting it for review, etc.). Maybe we should think if
>> we want to use the Wiki as our rapid documentation prototyping:
>> people could write documentation there for review, be refined by
>> others, and eventually converted to real TeX documentation.
>
> This is what i did with the decl hierarchy documentation i submitted
> as part of the decl cleanup patch.
>
> The Texinfo version took significantly longer than the wiki portion,
> but it was mainly just mechanical formatting, etc, where wiki knows what
> to do automatically or with a trivial command and Texinfo doesn't.

I believe we could conceive something to convert raw wiki text into texinfo
with our commands. It would handle the boring part of the conversion.

Giovanni Bajo