Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization?

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm>]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 11:53 AM, Gour wrote:

> TeX & ConTeXt are great but they have some learning curve for average 
> users, but
> by enabling DocBook authors to produce high-quality PDFs with some 
> reasonable
> defaults, plus the ability to customize the output for power users 
> (like XSLT
> DocBook customization layer), I'm sure it will drastically increase 
> number of
> ConTeXt users and provide to new perspective to TeX publishing in 
> general.
>
> The similar thing will happen with latest Hans' development and 
> providing utf-8
> support.

I agree all of these developments are really good things!

For it to me more flexible and accessible, the end point ought to be 
(and I'm pretty sure it is):

1)  Simon's project is more-or-less complete (as in, it supports most 
commonly used structures in DocBook, and does it reliably).

2)  Hans adds the additional structures perviously discussed to 
ConTeXt, and provides standard modules for books and articles.

3)  There is an easy way to run ConTeXt on a DocBook file and to have a 
switch for the formatting module, perhaps with options...

Bruce