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* Making DocBook xml books from org mode?
@ 2016-09-29 18:04 Peter Davis
  2016-09-29 19:23 ` Joost Kremers
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 26+ messages in thread
From: Peter Davis @ 2016-09-29 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

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

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2016-09-29 18:04 Making DocBook xml books from org mode? Peter Davis
2016-09-29 19:23 ` 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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