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Re: [WAS: Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package] md , rst, txt, html, ...

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Hi Jerome,

I may not fully understand the issue, but why not keep *.md, *.rst, *.pod,
etc. the way they are?

The main advantage of *.md, *.rst, *.pod, etc. is their readability. Their
additional advantage is that they can easily be transferred into *.html or
many other formats, if desired.

A missing man page might make such a conversion necessary. In that case a
*.md, *.rst, *.pod, or a .whatever file could be converted into *.*roff,
which should be done during build process.

Standard conversion of *.md, *.rst, *.pod, etc. to *.txt is IMO a plain bad
idea, because *.md, *.rst, *.pod files are meant to be readable text files
anyway.

Best wishes,

Guido van Steen

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Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2016-09-12 15:40 +0200
  Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-09-28 00:50 +0200
    [WAS: Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package] md , rst, txt,  html, ... Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2016-09-28 01:30 +0200
      Re: [WAS: Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package] md , rst,  txt, html, ... Guido van Steen <vansteen@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-09-28 08:30 +0200
    Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-09-28 11:40 +0200
      Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> - 2016-10-02 23:30 +0200
        Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 10:20 +0200
          Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 10:30 +0200
            Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 11:20 +0200
              Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 11:30 +0200
          Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> - 2016-10-22 21:50 +0200
    Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-09-28 14:30 +0200
      Re: Review/sponsorship of osmalchemy package Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-09-28 14:40 +0200

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