Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:32 AM 12/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:12 AM, Gour wrote:
>
>>it possible to just convert DocBook input file into ConTeXt format or/and 
>>how isone supposed to tailor output according to his/her preferences?
>
>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.).

the best way is to map docbook things onto configurable context commands 
(i'll something like that with tei); once the docbook module is ready for 
such an overhaul, i'll look into it. [this is normally the way we map xml 
to tex; it gives you reasonable defaults, but complete configurability; 
time ...]

Hans


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