[geeks] Three heads

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 7 23:49:32 CDT 2001


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> One more option for large documents...  DocBook.  www.docbook.org is
> where I look for info.  Since this list is hosed at sunhelp.org, I
> should point out that the AnswerBooks, as well as the Solaris man pages,
> are done is SolBook, which is a variation on DocBook.  I expect that the
> rest of the industry will be following before too long, especially as
> decent XML editors come to market.  (Compaq already has some stuff this
> way, as does O'Reilly).  Later,

I've been wondering, what constitutes a decent XML editor?

TeX is nice, but from what I've heard DocBook in some ways might be
better.  I wonder how well it handles specialized notations like math and
music though.  TeX handles those well (with the proper packages of
course).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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