[Simh] Disappeared doc files

[Toby Thain]

On 30-Aug-07, at 4:46 PM, Peter Lund wrote:

> Some doc files disappared from the source zip file ...
>
> Unfortunately,
>  1) I don't have docs I can load up in my text editor anymore
>  2) I can't grep through the PDFs
>  3) I can't send patches
>  4) the connection between a release and its docs is broken
>
> Can we work out a better solution?
>
> For example something like "almost plain text" format which contains
> markup so light weight that it looks like an ordinary text file but
> which can still be converted to HTML and PDF?

There are many such formats. One is reStructuredText:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

--Toby

>
> -Peter
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