From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10097 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bruce D'Arcus" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:04:56 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <825C7931-0C61-11D7-A0AA-0030657A7050@fastmail.fm> References: <20021210165308.GA16020@mail.inet.hr> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039540008 17988 80.91.224.249 (10 Dec 2002 17:06:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LnqG-0004fc-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:06:44 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9C110AE8; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:06:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from muaix01.mcs.muohio.edu (muaix01.mcs.muohio.edu [134.53.253.21]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F0110AE7 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:05:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from muwnt04 (muwnt04.mcs.muohio.edu [134.53.7.74]) by muaix01.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-2.2.0/Switch-2.2.0) with SMTP id gBAH5c018720 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:05:38 -0500 Original-Received: From mcsaix05.mcs.muohio.edu ([134.53.253.27]) by muwnt04 (WebShield SMTP v4.5 MR1a); id 1039539937454; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fastmail.fm (ip134-053-112-238.s112.muohio.edu [134.53.112.238]) by mcsaix05.mcs.muohio.edu (Switch-2.2.0/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id gBAH5aw116288 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:05:37 -0500 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20021210165308.GA16020@mail.inet.hr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10097 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