Re: document processing
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:26:56PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I
> > don't like wysiwyg. I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html.
> >
> > Something like DebianDoc seems overkill for a letter.
>
> I'd just use docbook (I haven't looked at debiandoc, but at a guess,
> it's probably not all that much different). It's not really overkill if
> you consider that you can just make a template once, and then re-use it
> every time you need to write a letter.
>
> The XML (or SGML) is not really any more difficult to use than HTML,
> either...
I've had two suggestions of LaTex (thank you). How does the ease of use
compare?
More broadly, since LaTex and Tex have been around for so long, why was
docbook (and debiandoc) developed instead of just having specific
templates standardized?
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