Subject: Re: presentation neutral publication tool
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: haad <haaaad@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/20/2007 08:28:56
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George Georgalis wrote:
> I'm looking for a system to publish documents in multiple media
> forms, probably limited to pdf and html. The plan had been to use
> latex, but there are too many problems when it comes to figures
> and graphics, eg make a latex doc that renders with ray traced pdf
> or eps figures when appropriate, while knowing to include the png
> files for html; or make tables and multi-page tables, etc work in
> all formats.
> 
> My most recent problems for pdflatex are worked out, but I've
> given up making html versions available. The documents I'm working
> with could be a few pages or 100s, are technical and scientific,
> with symbols and formulas, with (sometimes lots) of graphics that
> may be 5 or 10 Mb each.
> 
> The nice thing about latex, is the somewhat easy to manipulate
> source code. I can write tex files in vi and get good results.
> Docbook is the only alternative I know of but xml/sgml is not
> very human friendly to type. --- maybe if there was a macro to
> transform latex-like source to docbook, but just the macro would
> be a lot of work. As long as I'm wishing, programmatic generated
> source along with a WYSIWYG interface options would be ideal.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> // George
> 
> 
Try oxygenxml.com this is great tool for editing and writing docbook documents.

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