As an aside, recommending "vim with syntax highlighting for writing and Docker container for preview" reads to me something like "retrieve your mechanical typewriter from the attic ...".

Although I really use vim with syntax highlighting, I did not recommend it anywhere in my previous text - I only mentioned Atom and Live Previews. :D
 
As a scientist, I have been involved in writing and publishing for many years, and I have never had such a request from a publisher, not even technical publishers like IBM's ITSO or Springer. The „real Fedora way" makes it easier for developers and community members, but increases the effort for (and possibly discourages) professional writers who have become accustomed to the extensive functionality of their writing tools. It would be nice if we would find an easy way for them too.


Well, I believe that "professional writers" who want to write about Linux servers are fully aware of various tools to write texts and they probably know something about text format conversion, unless by "professional" you mean people who, for instance, just hand-in typewritten novels in Word or a similar application. But even the Word users can still use it to write the text and have it converted by pandoc, which seems to be able to convert from DOCX to ADOC. There is no need to think they will not be able to learn a few simple steps.

And if there still is somebody who wants to write something about Fedora and they only want to do it in a certain format, I am willing to help them to convert their text to AsciiDoc providing that I can open the format on my Fedora machine.

Regards,
Lukas


 

But back to business. As you put pbokoc in CC, he and perhaps you have been working on the "System Administration Guide". We have discussed in the server group that it would be advantageous to add items regarding the server edition to this guide (in the Fedora way, of course). I would like to know if (and if so, how) this would fit into the current concept and ongoing work on the guide, or perhaps someone is already working on it.


Thanks for your input.
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Lukáš Růžička

FEDORA QE, RHCE

Red Hat

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