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Re: offtopic: which text language to use?



On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> SOORY, this is completly offtopic...
> 
> Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but
> I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is
> really poor (am I wrong?).
> 
> I'm looking for some language that allows me to convert it to LaTeX and
> html, and to customize as much as possible the conversion (output).
> Is SGML a good choice?
> 
> Thanks.

DocBook SGML.  Debian is one of the very few Linux distributions that has
a decently working installation of DocBook.  In case you don't know it,
DocBook is a DTD of SGML, just as HTML is, and it defines all kinds of
tags that help you structure book-like documents.  Translation to HTML is
straightforward.  Translation to other formats goes through LaTeX.

See http://www.docbook.org .

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