From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Making DocBook xml books from org mode?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:04:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475172280.399769.741096521.05684B25@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
I've started a new position in which I have to create and maintain a
large set of documents in DocBook xml format. For new books, I'd really
like to use org mode, since a) I'm already familiar with it, b) I love
it, and c) I believe it does (or can be made to do) nearly everything I
need.
However, after Googling around the org-mode/DocBook space, I'm left with
some questions.
1. I'm going to be creating books, as opposed to articles. My org-header
looks like this:
#+STARTUP: showeverything logdone
#+OPTIONS: H:5 num:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:nil -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+LaTeX_CLASS: koma-article
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{listings}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parskip}{2ex plus 4pt minus 2pt}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.0}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\topsep}{-10pt}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{xcolor}
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \lstset{
#+LaTeX_HEADER: basicstyle=\ttfamily,
#+LaTeX_HEADER: breaklines=true,
#+LaTeX_HEADER:
prebreak=\mbox{\ensuremath{\color{red}\hookleftarrow}},
#+LaTeX_HEADER:
postbreak=\raisebox{0ex}[0ex][0ex]{\ensuremath{\color{red}\hookrightarrow\space}},
#+LaTeX_HEADER: columns=fullflexible,
#+LaTeX_HEADER: keepspaces=true
#+LaTeX_HEADER: }
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS:
[book,letterpaper,times,12pt,listings-bw,microtype]
but the PDFs I'm getting still look like articles. (I copied the
above from some examples posted on this list a while ago. Thanks!)
2. Are there any advantages to considering MarkDown or AsciiDoc as
opposed to org markup? (Again, my familiarity with org is a strong
incentive here, but I'm willing to consider other options.)
3. The direct route from org to DocBook xml seems to be missing. From
what I gather, I can get there somehow via texi (but I don't even have
that in org currently), or perhaps export to HTML and then convert that
to db xml. Am I missing something? Is there some other route I should
consider?
4. [LONGSHOT] Is there any way to /import/ docbook xml into org mode?
Thank you very much.
-pd
--
Peter Davis
www.techcurmudgeon.com
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 18:04 Peter Davis [this message]
2016-09-29 19:23 ` Making DocBook xml books from org mode? Joost Kremers
2016-09-29 22:17 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 15:44 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 21:23 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 21:35 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-02 21:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 22:12 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-03 0:32 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-03 2:09 ` Norman Walsh
2016-10-03 12:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-03 3:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-03 12:49 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 9:16 ` [DOCS] " Christian Moe
2016-09-30 14:51 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 15:33 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-09-30 15:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 19:37 ` Nick Dokos
2016-09-30 19:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 20:18 ` Colin Baxter
2016-09-30 20:50 ` Nick Dokos
2016-10-01 8:01 ` Colin Baxter
2016-10-05 13:32 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 9:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-09-30 14:55 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 17:05 ` Nick Dokos
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