On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:04:28 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as > "Daniel E. Baumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > How easy would it be to write it in Latex (well actaully LyX) and then > > convert to html then convert to texinfo. Has anyone ever done this and what > > are the discrepencies of doing so. > > That approach involves a whole lot of "impedance" as it involves > transformation into a rather low quality format, namely HTML. > > I would suggest that there are two reasonable choices: > a) Texinfo, which is the FSF-preferred format, and > b) DocBook, which is the preferred format for quite a number of > Linux-related projects, and for which there is a direct-to-Texinfo > transformation tool. > > Both are transformable into a number of useful formats, and are > sufficiently expressive in and of themselves that the results should > be reasonably good. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linux.html> > "La Cicciolina [...] Electing her was an interesting contrast to the > situation in the UK: In Italy they elect a representative from the sex > industry. In the UK, they elect their clients." -- Peter Gutmann > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well what I think 'll do then is use LyX and export to DocBook and then this can be converted to whatever (texinfo, html, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel E. Baumann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (caution: dynamic DNS) Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." -- Dave Olson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------