Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas?

[Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com>]

Many thanks for your reply! I would certainly go this way having a
couple of months or a year perspective. Besides I'm eager to try
finally the new way mkIV deals with xml. But realistically, preparing
and testing a mapping of  even a subset of DocBook is a question of at
least a couple of personmonths if not worse. Sadly, I'm not in a
position to that now.

Best

Piotr

2011/6/2 Thomas Schmitz <tschmit1@uni-bonn.de>:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:39:46 +0200
>  Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am beginning a rather tedious documentation project and will most
>>  probably end up with DocBook. The fact is I haven't used it for any
>>  serious work for about 10 years. Docbook In ConText haven't been
>>  updated since 2003. Does it mean it's so perfect or instead rather
>>  obsolete? Could you recommend other approaches which work
>>  out-of-the-box (or almost). Obviously I would prefer ConTeXt based
>>  solutions. DocBook is not mandatory in fact, I would happily learn  other
>>  documentation system. Main prerequisite is utf-8 output at least in
>>  pdf and html and sensible defaults (this time I don't want to be a
>>  typographer, nor I want to fiddle with structure).
>>
>>  Best
>>
>>  Piotr
>>  --
>>  http://okle.pl
>
> Difficult to say of course without knowing the complexity of your documents,
> but just a few thoughts: if you're referring to Simon Pepping's "Docbook in
> ConTeXt," this was targeted at mkii, so it will probably still work, but
> could be considered obsolete. xml support in mkiv has changed a lot, but is
> much more powerful and flexible. It's fairly easy to write a stylesheet to
> translate your xml for typesetting, so I would look at the relevant xml
> documentation (like xml-mkiv.pdf) and make a fresh start. You can always
> refine and elaborate things as you go, and if you really hit a wall, there's
> the list.
>
> Thomas
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