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The IzPack documentation is moving to reStructured Text format

I have started the transition of the documentation to reStructured text. You will find in src/doc-reST from the SVN trunk the first chapters that have been extracted.

The migration phases will be the following ones.

1. Extract the text from the old documentation and put into reStructured document files, one per chapter. There should be no modification, the goal here is not to have a perfect extraction but have a decent base to get started.
2. Create 2 'main' reStructured text documents: one which is tailored for HTML ouput and one which is tailored for LaTeX/PDF output. The reason here is that HTML is better read when split through several files rather than when put into a single document. By contrast, generating the LaTeX/PDF version needs the output to be done in a single file.
3. Provide the automated scripted build support. Provide an anchor in the Ant build to call the documentation building chain.
4. Enhance the markup, fix typos, rewrite unclear paragraphs, and so on.

I won't have time to work on this for a few days, so volunteers are welcome for performing the extraction of the other chapters. I will handle the rest of the 2, 3 and 4 phases of course

If you need help on reStructured Text, then please go to:

• http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
• http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html

If you are outside of the project and would like to volunteer, then please contact me either by email, on the izpack-devel mailing-list, or by a comment here. Thanks!