From b.gohla@gmx.de Wed Mar 28 22:54:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 29 Mar 2001 06:54:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 27055 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2001 06:54:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 29 Mar 2001 06:54:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (194.221.183.20) by mta2 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2001 06:54:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 7398 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 2001 06:53:53 -0000 Received: from sam.comnets.uni-bremen.de (HELO gmx.de) (134.102.186.10) by mail.gmx.net (mp002-rz3) with SMTP; 29 Mar 2001 06:53:53 -0000 Sender: bgo Message-ID: <3AC2DC08.6C46501B@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:54:00 +0200 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Document Management References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bjoern Gohla Chris Double wrote: > > coi rodo > > Personally I think the best document format is whatever the author decides is a good format for their usage. Whatever facilitates their creating of lojban material in the easiest possible manner is likely to be a personal choice. suum cuique, but the possibility of combining seperate works into a larger projects would be advanced if they used a common format. > When creating documents myself for distribution in different formats I use custom XML tags. Basically I build a DTD as I go along using elements that describe the information being stored. I then use XSLT stylesheets to transform this to HTML, Docbook, XSL-FO, or whatever. sounds very appealing, what exactly do you have to do to be able to convert to all those formats? >Mainly I use HTML and XSL-FO (to transform to PDF). Once or twice I go to Docbook to get RTF, Tex, etc. There is even a system for transforming XML to Latex - I think IBM have it at their alphaworks site. > > Images are a bit tricky with this approach. Sometimes I use links to bitmaps, GIF's or JPG's. Other times I use SVG which is an XML specification for vector graphics. This is one area where I miss WYSIWYG at times. > > I think when it comes to a central document management site it would be good if you accepted all formats. Some will be easier than others to deal with and the end user will end up deciding what they can deal with. of course it would be rather foolish to exclude any material because of its format, but it would certainly be nice if we could agree at least on a set of very few source formats, which would greatly ease on-the-fly generation of alternative formats. >Plain text may very well be the easiest and most useful in the end. I take my hat off to John Cowan for preparing the entire reference manual in plain text. And a very nice end product at the end of it. co'o mi'e .biorn.