[Qgis-community-team] documentation format

[Tara Athan]

Hello, all! In a moment of madness, I agreed to lead the QGIS 
documentation team. Currently, the documentation is developed in latex 
and then exported to html and pdf formats. I see a few problems with this:
1. documentation contributors have to learn latex or someone has to be 
the middle-man to convert their contributions to latex
2. latex mixes presentation and structural markup- recommended practice 
is to separate them
3. I haven't used latex in over 20 years.
So I would like to propose that we change to a different format 
(understanding full well and accepting the responsibility for converting 
from the old format to the new)

In this reference
   
<http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/documentation.html>
Docbook is recommended. After a quick perusal of some introductory 
material, such as
  <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch01.html>
it is looking like a good choice to me.

I would like to know if anyone on the team has experience in using this 
format and can offer advice as to whether this would  be a good idea.

Thanks, Tara