From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baoqiu Cui Subject: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:32:50 -0800 Message-ID: References: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> <878wnmy3g8.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87wsb6wmz9.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87d4cywawk.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <873adt936f.fsf@gaura-nitai.no-ip.org> <87eixdmdhi.fsf@nitai.hr> <87y6vktgbf.fsf@nitai.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBdZ-0007E3-Qq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:33:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBdZ-0007Dr-DW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:33:21 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55524 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBdZ-0007Do-6G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:33:21 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:32839 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgBdY-0005Ki-MB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:33:21 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBdR-000355-I3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:33:13 +0000 Received: from adsl-76-192-233-190.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([76.192.233.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:33:13 +0000 Received: from cbaoqiu by adsl-76-192-233-190.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:33:13 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Gour writes: >>>>>> "Baoqiu" == Baoqiu Cui 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