I want to go a little further with my correction. I did not intend to criticize a2x. It has done an amazing job for a very long time of being a DocBook toolchain frontend and hiding much of the complexity of using such a powerful and extensible tool. What I was trying to suggest is that if you just need a DocBook toolchain wrapper, there are projects like xmlto that only do that one thing. That doesn't make them better, but does offer the potential to be installable as a standalone tool. You need to decide for yourself what works best for you.
If my earlier criticism offended the maintainers of this project in any way, I do apologize as that was not my intent. Best Regards, -Dan On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 16:58 Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lex wrote: > > I don't agree with Dan's assessment of a2x, if it works for you its fine > to use, old doesn't mean bad, it hasn't changed much because it hasn't > needed to. > > I didn't mean to suggest old is bad. I'm simply suggesting that if you're > looking to adopt a new tool, you should evaluate whether there's a more > modern option that has kept up with the developments in the DocBook > toolchain. What we do know is that a2x hasn't been updated that much. But > if it works for someone, and no updates were needed, by all means use it. > > -Dan > > -- > Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/CAKeHnO7Q5ecaLv4d200z-Ta5xDX_czpi1uedXz8iSAAvwE%2BsUg%40mail.gmail.com.
