Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode

[Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>]

Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr> writes:

>>>>>> "Baoqiu" == Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Baoqiu> I knew it must be FOP that you did not like. ;-) I had similar
> Baoqiu> experience using FOP, and I (and all other team members) had to
> Baoqiu> find workarounds when hitting problems in FOP (like formatting
> Baoqiu> footnotes in lists or tables).  
>
> Not hard to guess - not many players around. ;)
>
> Baoqiu> Don't know if you have tried XEP from RenderX.  I have not found
> Baoqiu> any problems in XEP.
>
> This is commercial app, right? 

Yes, it is.  I do like its PDF output quality.

> Moreover, I do not believe it produces better output than TeX.

You won't see real difference if we are talking about software manuals
or documentation etc.

> Frankly speaking, reST provides a lot of expressive power if you want
> it, while still keeping document very readable and no DTDs, schemas,
> validation, fiddling with catalogs etc. :-D
>
> Otoh, number of tags in DocBook is overwhelming and, imgo, way too
> distracting for most documentation tasks, at least, for *my* use-cases.

Maybe you should take a look at Simplified DocBook:

  http://www.docbook.org/schemas/simplified

- Baoqiu