On 17 November 2014 08:51, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > AFAIK, there are other "standard" XML formats to do such things, maybe one > is called BookDoc. > Yep. I generate DocBook for a reference document that I produce out of the code. Different style sheets define transformation into HTML or TeX (which can be rendered into PDF etc). Coding XML tags by hand is tedious at least. It wasn't meant for that, unlike SGML and Bookie. But obviously not much harder when you write the program to generate the XML tags. I did find modifying style sheets a lot harder than hacking DCF macros, but that's more a personal skills issue. I suppose XML takes the re-use of content to the extreme, using XSLT as the extraction process. Even within the scope of publishing, it would be up to the style sheet for example to have 'notes' done as footnote, as usage notes side bar on the section, or in a separate chapter at the end. Clearly your expectations would be different for HTML than for a printed book. Rob
