On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:58:18PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> writes: > JM> Is SGML a good choice? > > SGML/DocBook is probably a good choice, if those are your criteria. > You can reasonably easily get from SGML to TeX DVI (and from there to > PostScript and PDF), HTML, and RTF using jade. There is some amount > of customizability possible here. You actually can do arbitrary > things, but that means that the formatting language is Turing-complete > (it's actually a dialect of Scheme), and so it's kind of tricky to do > things that the stylesheet authors didn't anticipate you trying to do. > > LaTeX: > -- Possible to define arbitrarily complicated macros; this can be good > or bad > -- Converts to DVI or PDF, with DVI->PS conversion possible > -- Several okay converters to text or HTML > > DocBook: > -- Locked into structure of DTD > -- Somewhat clumsier text structure > -- Converts to JadeTeX (->DVI or PDF), HTML, RTF directly, with > customizable stylesheets > > LaTeX seems to be somewhat better supported in the academic community, > at least; a lot of places seem to have people who have heard of and > can use LaTeX, but are really squeamish about DocBook because it isn't > particularly established. Ok, thanks for your "tips". About LaTeX, I know the basics, but I'm not an expert. About DocBook, I'm trying to learn it now. I think I'll go with DocBook/XML. But I can't get jade working... It is giving me errors. I'll post the errors here, because I think it is a problem from my debian installation :?... BTW, I prefer the XML structure to the latex one (to me, it is clearer)... Maybe because I'm more used to it... ;) Thanks. > > -- > David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Make a better partition table: http://www.jmmv.f2s.com/ept Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> ICQ: 18961975
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