2011/10/28 maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote: >> majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases >> are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by >> default because of available GUI tools refuse to play. > > We have a process that starts with DocBook (XML) and gets converted to > XeLaTeX using the dblatex program. We have what I consider to be very good > reasons for this approach (I suppose some on this list might disagree), > including interacting with other XML-based processes, automatic tagging of > words for script, extracting various kinds of data (grammar rules to be > converted into parsers, examples to be converted into test cases for those > parsers, etc.). So yes, we use batch mode. > > I don't know how many other users of dblatex there are, but there seem to > be enough to justify its existence--we didn't create it, we were just lucky > to find it. (And also fortunate to need xelatex just as it had matured.) > Occasionally I need strictly formatted documents with a limited set of elements. For this purpose I define the structure in Relax NG and write an XSLT stylesheet for transformation to (Xe)LaTeX. I am just working on such a book that will be written in XML and typeset with XeLaTeX.
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