From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gour Subject: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:58:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87eixdmdhi.fsf@nitai.hr> References: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> <878wnmy3g8.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87wsb6wmz9.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87d4cywawk.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <873adt936f.fsf@gaura-nitai.no-ip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1242391283==" Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeuQh-0004aX-OC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:58:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeuQg-0004aA-7Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:58:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59116 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeuQg-0004a7-1B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:58:46 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45431 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LeuQf-0004tF-Cl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:58:45 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LeuQa-0007Pn-9F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:58:40 +0000 Received: from 199-7.dsl.iskon.hr ([89.164.199.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:58:40 +0000 Received: from gour by 199-7.dsl.iskon.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:58:40 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --===============1242391283== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Baoqiu" =3D=3D 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).=20=20 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.=20 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 =2D-=20 Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D =2D--------------------------------------------------------------- --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmuszoACgkQlMjHkcbnFi1d0wCfSDy17XFkpuk7DVB56rClIM5a y5cAn2HFl6AljFxuuwzTC7J11lPJP69E =f/vL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============1242391283== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode --===============1242391283==--