From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:22:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87hc2awe3p.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> <878wnmy3g8.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Leb6V-0005VL-HI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:20:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Leb6T-0005UA-BO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:20:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39039 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Leb6T-0005U7-6X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:20:37 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58403) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Leb6S-0000Uo-H9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:20:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Baoqiu Cui's message of "Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:53:52 -0800") 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: Baoqiu Cui Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Baoqiu Cui writes: > Sebastian Rose writes: > >> docbook is great since it's widely used. > > Yes, DocBook has been adopted by many organizations in different areas > in the past years. Once we have a good exporter for DocBook, we > basically build a bridge for exporting Org files to all other formats. > >> The output looks good! >> >> How could we test it? >> And could we configure it somehow? > > On how to set up a DocBook publishing environment, you can take a look > at the following page: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ToolsSetup.html > > I used xsltproc + FOP before, but now I use Saxon + FOP. > >> Anyway, I'd prefere to export to _one_ XML format from Org-mode and >> provide xslt stylesheets to translate between different formats. > > I totally agree! We only need one XML exporter, and I think DocBook is > the way to go. How would I implement an individual design for a PDF? How would I implement an individual layout for XHTML? Are you shure, we could as easy and flexible style the output, as we can do now? I'm quite shure the direct LaTeX output is can't be beaten. I include some files for LaTeX/PDF output. How would I do that? Using docbook as the default output means to export from one interim format to another. This is not bad, but we'll have to convince everyone, that this is a good thing. The LaTeX and XHTML export (which, by the way, could be transformed just as good as docbook) work and are widely used. Remember, that we will never have more information about the document, than the Org-file format gives us. While docbook might be a good technique, I'm not sure if docbook is the way to go. I started to read about Docbook years ago, but I gave in on that, since I encountered it in the wild. The DTD is huge and not many will understand how to use it. XHTML and LaTeX are, what people know already. How would we support them in doing their daily work? -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Http: www.emma-stil.de