Re: sgml authoring
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 02:15:34PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
>
> I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words),
> and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming
> into the Emacs documentation...).
>
> The possibilities I am looking as as to format are the ubiquitous LaTeX, or
> the newer contender, SGML. I don't know any of either, so I'm going to have
> to learn something from scratch, but I'm wondering if anyone has any
> recomendations as to which is easier to learn and use. I do know a little
> HTML.
>
> I know that SGML can be converted to LaTex and lots of other stuff, LaTex
> to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright.
>
> Any comments? Anyone recomend a good starting point to learn one?
>
I wouldn't recommend to do it in SGML and then to convert to LaTeX for
print-out, because you would have to fine-tune the LaTeX-output and for that
you would have to learn LaTeX anyway...
Furthermore there are yet more sophisticated tools and editors for LaTeX than
for SGML -- same with textbooks, on-line docs and -help.
Greetings
jtr
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