Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Re: Whats the best way to write vim documentation?

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Hey Benji,

Thanks for taking this up...

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Benji Fisher wrote:

>       I am willing to look into this.  It may take me a couple of weeks
> before I can get anywhere, though.  You may have noticed that I posted
> to the vim-dev list, in order to get a wider range of experience.  So
> far, the answers are not so encouraging as I had hoped.
>
You might also want to take a look at this:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/dom-example.html

All the answers which people seem to be giving you on vim-dev seem to
have the flavor of using some xslt kind of approach. That will require
you to learn yet another thing. From what I can see in the minidom
example, if you take a python programming approach (and I know you use
and like python), at least for our xml2vim thing, you might end up
getting something faster. Just a suggestion... Ofcourse I have about 2
hours of knowledge about xml so far, so maybe (most probably) there is
something easier... What about asking this on an xml newsgroup/mailing
list?

>       In the mean time, I suggest writing documentation in whatever
> format seems easiest.  If you structure things as consistently as
> possible, it should not be hard (using the best text editor in the
> world) to convert to xml.

Okay... I'll write the documentation for now in vim-help format itself
and set myself a couple of rigid rules... Hopefully that will make
conversion easy...

Srinath