From b.gohla@gmx.de Wed Mar 28 11:30:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 19:30:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 74064 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 19:29:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 19:29:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (194.221.183.20) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 19:29:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 8884 invoked by uid 0); 28 Mar 2001 19:29:32 -0000 Received: from a904b.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.6.144.75) by mail.gmx.net (mp023-rz3) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 19:29:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] Document Management (was: Marketing lojban) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:22:25 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <99l2m8+4r97@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032521222504.00708@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 March 2001 18:35, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > The two formats that do a good job are Texinfo and DocBook. Texinfo > is better if you want printing as well as everything else. DocBook is > now being reimplemented in XML rather than SGML and has gained a > considerable amount of support among various documentation groups. (I > expect its printed output format to improve markedly over the next few > years. Incidentally, there are programs to convert from one format to > the other, but I cannot say how good they are.) (clip) > Overall, for lojban purposes, Texinfo is the best. You can readily > edit it using an integrated environment that run under Microsoft > Windows, under Solaris, on mainframes, on BSD systems, and on > GNU/Linux systems. You can then create different output formats for > different situations. (clip) > DocBook is number two. As with Texinfo, you can edit XML documents on > systems running Microsoft Windows or Solaris, on mainframes, on BSD > systems, and on GNU/Linux systems. And you can create different > output formats for different circumstances. one thing that struck me scanning through documentation is that texinfo see= ms=20 to not be able to include images. while texinfo looks like the more easily= =20 useable tool, docbook appears to be more feature rich. as far as i can see one would get pdf out of texinfo output run through=20 pdftex, which would leave one with a nice print master, but what about pdf= =20 hyperlinks, i think it would require a bit of additional effort to have=20 those.=20 co'o mi'e .biorn=20 - --=20 - ------------------------------------- b.gohla@gmx.de Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 = =20 guard your privacy -- use GnuPG -- see: http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vkV/bBQ8OYNPSXYRAsrdAKC+QT6TR1ve5FVbwI81GwgnrQ5+IwCgu0qw 2Ms8njCpxjuTwiA8+3FoS84=3D =3DctuT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----