Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

Zvezdan Petkovic <address@hidden>:
> You mention above a good DocBook toolchain.
> Can you give us some detail?
> What do you use to produce DocBook-XML documents effectively?
> If you consider that this is off topic for the groff list, you can reply
> off the list.  I'm really interested in giving DocBook another chance.

I use Emacs to edit DocBook markup directly.  For someone as bothered
by tag verbosity as you are I would recommend using asciidoc, which can
generate DocBook.

On the back end, Norm Walsh's stylesheets do a perfectly competent job
of generating HTML.  On the print side, I still use the grotty old
PassiveTex stylesheets for previewing and huddle with the specialists
at whatever publishers I'm working with (Addison-Wesley last time out,
O'Reilly before that) to get really good rendering.

FOP is at 0.92 level now.  What with Java going open, I expect the 
DocBook -> XSL:FO -> PostScript path via FOP will get really good
sometime in 2007 or early 2008.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>