Re: markup format ---> ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:

> Thank you very much, you confirm that the "DocbookInContext" from
> Simon Pepping is still the way to go.

beware, afaik that one adapts core macros which is to be avoided

> I've no specific request, I just forward some interest by the web  
> community
> to converting from docbook to pdf more or less automaticaly.
> I fact, my original interest come from the work of the jelix team (a  
> MVC php Framwork)
> whose documentation was only online (dokuwiki).
> Following some user feedback, Jelix team have then generate docbook  
> from that wiki
> filesss+ and make pdf file thanks to the (not maintained) db2latex tool.
> I look after a more uptodate tool (for further customisation) and  
> found dblatex
> as mention on the (french) forum:
> 
>    http://jelix.org/forums/read.php?10,2680,page=4#msg-2872
> 
> The result was that the simple command:
> 
>     dblatex jelix-manual.xml
> 
> produce a "correct" (i.e. readable) jelix-manual.pdf  file without any
> customisation (with default table of content, correct verbatim, ...)
> which was not the case for db2latex.
> But then, any customisation will be a latex style, which is more hacking
> than ConTeXt (I think so, but I'm sure you agree ;-)
> 
> Nevertheless, the first criterion was that it just works in simple case.
> If some magic command (or a simple tutorial) like :
> 
>     texexec --docbook jelix-manual.xml
> 
> do some equivalent work than the above dblatex, no doubt that the  
> ConTeXt
> community will increase by more than 100%!

i can probably cook up a basic docbook converter in a couple of hours 
but since i never run into docbook ...

Hans

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