28 lines
1.4 KiB
XML
28 lines
1.4 KiB
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd">
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<dita xml:lang="en-GB">
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<topic id="topic_nb3_hrx_5db">
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<title>Documentation Source Files</title>
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<body>
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<p>Unlike all other documentation in the GnuPG Project, including the initial version of
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this HOWTO, this version was <i>not</i> written in Emacs Org-Mode. Nor was it written in
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LaTeX, Texinfo or even directly in HTML. Instead it was written using the Darwin Information
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Typing Architecture (DITA) XML.</p>
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<p>This was done for two main reasons:</p>
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<p>
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<ol id="ol_k3b_wrx_5db">
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<li>A bug in either Org-Mode or Babel prevented the more complex examples included in the
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HOWTO from displaying correctly.</li>
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<li>To demonstrate some of the advantages of DITA XML over existing documentation
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productionsoftware used in the project (particularly Texinfo and LaTeX).</li>
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</ol>
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</p>
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<p>The XML format definitely supports displaying all the more complex Python code correctly,
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as well as being designed to produce standards compliant print and HTML output. Whereas
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currently the existing tools utilised by the GnuPG Project can't display the example code in
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a way which would actually pass the project's own git commit ruleset.</p>
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<p> </p>
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</body>
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</topic>
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</dita>
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