Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization?

[Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr>]

Bruce D'Arcus (bdarcus@fastmail.fm) wrote:

> In my little experience with this, it seems you'd want a module (or is 
> an environment better?) that specifies the formatting for the document 
> (just as you would for any ConTeXt document).  This works perfectly for 
> those structures that ConTeXt supports, but not for those that it 
> doesn't (author, subtitle, abstract, epigraph, etc., etc.).

I'd like something like:

         dic*
DocBook -------> ConTeXt  ----> output

*dic = DocBookInConTeXt module

which is similar to XSL toolchain:

         xslt            fop
DocBook ------> XSL-FO  -----> output

with the exception that ConTeXt format is more user-friendly & capable than 
xsl-fo format, and produces best quality output.

In this way, we have best of both worlds :-) ie. one can use & automatically 
process DocBook-authored documents to get high quality.
 
If it is possible to get ConTeXt *.tex file after processing DocBook *.xml file
with DocBookInConTeXt module (of course, for those structures that are supportedin it), I'd like to know how?

Btw, I consider that providing DocBook (xml) as an input format will bring many
more users to ConTeXt because high-quality output is what prevents many to use 
DocBook as an authoring tool (besides those who are rich enough to buy 
commercial FO engines - mostly corporate users).

With time, one can also expect that DocBookInConText module will get more users'
input and be able to map more DocBook elements.

Sincerely,
Gour

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