Re: Document Prep using Linux - Why not use HTML preprocessors?

[RADHAKRISHNAN C V <cvr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:

> There is something called "Docbook" which is an industry standard SGML
> DTD. I tried it last week and was pleased with the results.

it depends on your purpose. if the purpose is to preserve/archive, SGML is
the best neutral medium. but if preference is for fine control over the
printed output, you have to depend on TeX/LaTeX. cause, the TeX backend
for SGML, which is generated by Jade/DSSSL and JadeTeX blows up at tables.
still it has lot of problems as confirmed by its maintainer, sebastian
rahtz (sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxx). of course, you can generate rtf output
with Norm's stylesheet and Jade which has less problems.

> You can convert Docbook SGML docs to -> html, pdf, ps, latex

LaTeX can be converted to html, xml, sgml, mathml, pdf, ps.

1. use tex4ht of eiten gurari to convert TeX/LaTeX to html, xml, sgml
(even conformant to docbook dtd), and mathml seamlessly.

2. pdf can be directly generated from LaTeX/TeX by pdfLaTeX/pdfTeX.

3.. ps is thru LaTeX ==> dvi ==> ps (using dvips).

> linuxdoc-sgml used to be capable of doing a subset of the above things and
> has been obsoleted by Docbook, which has richer capabilities (screenshots,
> code snipettes) etc.

usage of docbook dtd is mainly due to preservation of the document in
neurtal format, rather than the look and feel of the output format.

radhakrishnan



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