DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DocBook and TeX/LaTeX

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de> was heard to say:
| * Ian Castle <ian.castle@coldcomfortfarm.net> [020224 11:46]:
|
|> PassiveTeX takes this approach
|> 
|> see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/passivetex/
|
| passivetex works on FO files, whereas using xmltex with a special
| DocBook map file would create native LaTeX code and let (pdf)latex
| typeset the document - a task which TeX solves really excellent.

My experience suggests that the mapping from DocBook to TeX is, uh,
non-trivial. I think PassiveTeX is a much more logical
solution...although I suppose you could argue that there would be
advantages to a really good mapping to LaTeX for journals that have
existing LaTeX styles.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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