Re: Format of HURD Progamming HOWTO/Tutorial
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:04:28 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> "Daniel E. Baumann" <baumannd@msoe.edu> said:
> > How easy would it be to write it in Latex (well actaully LyX) and then
> > convert to html then convert to texinfo. Has anyone ever done this and what
> > are the discrepencies of doing so.
>
> That approach involves a whole lot of "impedance" as it involves
> transformation into a rather low quality format, namely HTML.
>
> I would suggest that there are two reasonable choices:
> a) Texinfo, which is the FSF-preferred format, and
> b) DocBook, which is the preferred format for quite a number of
> Linux-related projects, and for which there is a direct-to-Texinfo
> transformation tool.
>
> Both are transformable into a number of useful formats, and are
> sufficiently expressive in and of themselves that the results should
> be reasonably good.
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Well what I think 'll do then is use LyX and export to DocBook and then this
can be converted to whatever (texinfo, html, etc.).
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