Switching users guide to ReStructuredText

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Fri Oct 2 13:31:48 UTC 2015


Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> writes:

> Hello friendly GHCers,
>
> Last week I sent out poll asking opinions on moving the Users' Guide
> From Docbook to ReStructuredText. While the response wasn't particularly
> large in volume, those that did reply were quite supportive of the idea.
>
> This week I took the time to clean up my hacked prototype. After quite
> some build system wrangling, it's finally in a merge-worthy state as
> D1294. You can see the output at,
>
>     http://smart-cactus.org/~ben/ghc-users-guide/html/index.html
>     http://smart-cactus.org/~ben/ghc-users-guide/users_guide.pdf
>
I should also point out that our documentation now has documentation,

    http://smart-cactus.org/~ben/ghc-users-guide/html/editing-guide.html

Anyone edits the Users Guide should at least glance as this document as
it contains a few notes that are otherwise not terribly discoverable.

Cheers,

- Ben
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