Hello, > About why use Docbook: it's not really for the output, is for > structuring the content. The semantic markup is content in the same way > text is. XHTML could do the same? If you use poor docbook markup the > answer is yes, but at the first moment you use more high semantic > meaning marks the answer is definitively no.
I am sure that you can do great things by using the right structure, but DocBook documents are a pain to produce, edit and maintain. To make things worse, even if you get the right layout, I have never seen a Docbook output that looks remotely decent. So given the choice of pain, structure and butt-ugly vs easy, somewhat-structured and easily pretificable, the choice is obvious. > About quality docbook output: I don't find it particularly horrible. I > agree there is very important problems caused by the TeX back-end for > the PDF/PS output. But this backend is being rewritten these days in the > XSL side[1]. The HTML output is very beautiful instead. Another very > important point is the docbook stylesheets are internationalized into > lots of languages. This mean the presentation will respect the national > language ortho-typographical rules. My suggestion is to use plain HTML, and in the future, and when the documents are finished, and you have not spent days fighting docbook, you can have a volunteer with lots of time to do the conversion. Big deal. Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
