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Re: DOCBOOK: Query.
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Sumit Dhar <dhar at dexponet dot com>,"docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:45:36 +0200
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Query.
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0204091421380.3635-100000@tachyon.homelinux.com>
Sumit Dhar wrote:
>
> Just curious, among the paid software, which all have you used and
> which in your opinion is the best?
Emacs+PSGML
> Also how does DocBook compare to LaTeX or TeX?
DocBook is markup language for documentation and other forms of text
documents. LaTeX/TeX is typesetting software. LaTeX's logical markup may
seem very similar to DocBook, but it can be reliably processed only by
TeX with LaTeX format. Processing by other tools isn't enough robust as
you can define your own macros and change character categories in your
documents -- doing really good, generaly usable and flexible conversion
from LaTeX to other formats like HTML is impossible. However this is
possible with DocBook where grammar of document is precisely defined by
DTD and you can use transform and query tools like DSSSL and XSLT
processors to transform DocBook source to any other output format.
Jirka
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