>>>>> "Baoqiu" == Baoqiu Cui writes: Baoqiu> It is true that many open-source tools around DocBook are still Baoqiu> not perfect, but they should be good enough for most of the work Baoqiu> of most users. Some commercial tools exist and are better, but Baoqiu> they are not free. (I have not used reST, however it does not Baoqiu> seem to me that it has more tools than DocBook.) Well, frankly speaking, I consider that XML simply sucks as authoring format. I was playing with FOP several years ago and I'd never replace it with TeX typesetting. Baoqiu> I just checked reST markup specifications, and they do look Baoqiu> powerful (but not very lightweight). Well, reST is, imho, (similar to markdown), much more readable than XML with all those brackets. Baoqiu> Maybe it *is* time to have a standard to unify all these Baoqiu> plain-text based lightweight markup languages: Muse, Org, reST, Baoqiu> asciidoc, all kinds of *wiki*, doxygen styles, etc. Maybe Creole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup) )? Baoqiu> These languages won't be lightweight and easy to read once they Baoqiu> become more powerful. At that point, I'd prefer to go back to Baoqiu> LaTeX or DocBook. I do not miss any feature in reST for my writing, the whole Python docs is written with it and it is for me still much readable in 'source' form than DocBook. Baoqiu> That may require some code sharing/merging between rst.el and Baoqiu> Org-mode, I guess. :-) Heh, I'm curious to know more about it. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------