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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index ee82149f..ab8fe93d 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -19,33 +19,31 @@ Recommends: Suggests: sisu-markup-samples, lv, calibre, pinfo, poedit, texinfo, trang Description: documents - structuring, publishing in multiple formats and search SiSU is a lightweight markup based, command line oriented, document - structuring, publishing and search framework for document collections. + structuring, publishing and search, static content tool for document + collections. . - With minimal preparation of a plain-text (UTF-8) file, using sisu markup - syntax in a text editor of your choice, SiSU can generate various document - formats (most of which share a common object numbering system for locating - content), including plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, EPUB, OpenDocument text - (ODF:ODT), LaTeX, PDF files, and populate an SQL database with objects - (roughly paragraph-sized chunks) so searches may be performed and matches - returned with that degree of granularity. Think being able to finely match - text in documents, using object numbers, across different output formats and - across languages if you have translations of the same document. Search results - can be an index of documents and object numbers within them, your criteria is - met by these documents at these locations within each document (equally - relevant across different output formats and languages). To be clear (if - obvious) page numbers provide none of this functionality. Object numbering is - particularly suitable for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to - works that are frequently changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed - means of reference of content. Document outputs can also share provided - semantic meta-data. + With minimal preparation of a plain-text (UTF-8) file, using sisu markup syntax + in your text editor of choice, SiSU can generate various document formats, most + of which share a common object numbering system for locating content, including + plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, EPUB, OpenDocument text (ODF:ODT), LaTeX, PDF + files, and populate an SQL database with objects (roughly paragraph-sized + chunks) so searches may be performed and matches returned with that degree of + granularity. Think of being able to finely match text in documents, using + common object numbers, across different output formats and across languages if + you have translations of the same document. For search, your criteria is met + by these documents at these locations within each document (equally relevant + across different output formats and languages). To be clear (if obvious) page + numbers provide none of this functionality. Object numbering is particularly + suitable for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to works that are + frequently changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed means of reference + of content. Document outputs can also share provided semantic meta-data. . SiSU also provides concordance files, document content certificates and - manifests of generated output. SiSU provides the means to make book indexes - that make use of its object numbering. + manifests of generated output and the means to make book indexes that make use + of its object numbering. . - A vim syntax highlighting file and an ftplugin with folds for sisu markup is - provided. Vim 7 includes syntax highlighting for SiSU. Some syntax hilighting - is also available for Emacs and a few other editors. + Syntax highlighting and folding (outlining) files are provided for the Vim and + Emacs editors. . Dependencies for various features are taken care of in sisu related packages. The package sisu-complete installs the whole of SiSU. |