new text format for HTML files

[Dave Peticolas]

Niklaus Giger writes:
> 
> I have investigated a little bit about the new SGML format.
> 
> b) In order to create SGML-docs I see two solutions. Either you use (X)Emacs 
> or on Linux only LyX supports LinuxDoc (but not docbook-) SGML files.
> Personally I like LyX and I think it is a very good frontend for LaTeX. But 
> in this case we should use LinuxDoc till  somebody has a support for Docbook.
> In my opinion XML is still to early to be adopted right now.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you suggesting we shouldn't use
DocBook? DocBook is the standard documentation format for gnome
programs and has recently been adopted as a wider documentation
standard, so I don't see a problem with using it.


> c) Shouldn't the *.gif be transformed into the .png format, as the 
> *.gif-files have some license problems ? I think it would cost me ten minutes
>  
> on my Mac to transform then using GraphicConverter.

Yes, they should. Right now, the old html files are still the ones
being shown by GnuCash. When I get things switched over to the
generated ones, let's do the conversion.

thanks,
dave