From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68858 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas? Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:20:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307010110 17742 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2011 10:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:21:50 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 02 12:21:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QS528-0005sd-NG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:21:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68245CAD4B; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Pvm5vQ4-6mcP; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E27CAD40; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1EDCAD40 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id G0Dg5FjAI8fM for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7282CAC8D for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail1x.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.112]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p52ALZr6008934 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:36 +0200 Original-Received: from [87.178.51.86] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de) by be1.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro WEBUSER 5.2.12) with HTTP id 7318921 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:20:29 +0200 X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v5.2.12 In-Reply-To: X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.112; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dEOWlzH4 - c08f663c4dd4 - 20110602 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68858 Archived-At: On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:39:46 +0200 Piotr Kopszak 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________