Re: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com> writes:
> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> docbook is great since it's widely used. 
>
> Yes, DocBook has been adopted by many organizations in different areas
> in the past years.  Once we have a good exporter for DocBook, we
> basically build a bridge for exporting Org files to all other formats.
>
>> The output looks good!
>>
>> How could we test it?
>> And could we configure it somehow?
>
> On how to set up a DocBook publishing environment, you can take a look
> at the following page:
>
>   http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ToolsSetup.html
>
> I used xsltproc + FOP before, but now I use Saxon + FOP.
>
>> Anyway, I'd prefere to export to _one_ XML format from Org-mode and
>> provide xslt stylesheets to translate between different formats.
>
> I totally agree!  We only need one XML exporter, and I think DocBook is
> the way to go.


How would I implement an individual design for a PDF?
How would I implement an individual layout for XHTML?

Are you shure, we could as easy and flexible style the output, as we can
do now?

I'm quite shure the direct LaTeX output is can't be beaten. I include
some files for LaTeX/PDF output. How would I do that?


Using docbook as the default output means to export from one interim
format to another. This is not bad, but we'll have to convince everyone,
that this is a good thing. The LaTeX and XHTML export (which, by the
way, could be transformed just as good as docbook) work and are widely
used.

Remember, that we will never have more information about the document,
than the Org-file format gives us.

While docbook might be a good technique, I'm not sure if docbook is the
way to go. I started to read about Docbook years ago, but I gave in on
that, since I encountered it in the wild. The DTD is huge and not many
will understand how to use it. XHTML and LaTeX are, what people know
already.
How would we support them in doing their daily work?


-- 
Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover
Tel.:  +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472
Fax:   +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044
mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417
Http:  www.emma-stil.de