Lowering the participation barrier for Fedora Docs

[Jaromir Hradilek]

On 11/18/2013 05:39 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 19:21 -0500, Christopher Antila wrote:
>> - - There is a significant barrier to entry. DocBook is clumsy at first, and
>> writing XML markup by hand is always a pain (maybe I'm just not using the
>> right tools). As far as I know, the only way to preview the final output is by
>> actually making the final output, so DocBook needs a bit of imagination.
>
> Yelp renders DocBook on the fly. If you're running GNOME, it's already
> installed. Auto-reload isn't currently hooked up for DocBook (it is for
> Mallard), but that's fixable.
>
> Of course, Yelp's rendering will differ from Publican's, so you'll want
> to use Publican for final proofing. But putting Yelp and a text editor
> side-by-side is a nice way to see a preview of what you're writing.

For the record, this is what I do on a regular basis and the difference 
in rendering is not that significant. What I really love about yelp is 
how fast it renders a reasonably large page (or even an unreasonably 
large one) in comparison with other tools. And if you ever find some 
time to fix bug 704821 [1], it will be a killer app.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704821
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Jaromir Hradilek
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