(Replying to the list this time) On 8/8/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > Frank Hofmann wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Rainer Heilke wrote: > > > >> The only FOSS tool I can think of is Scribus, but it may not be > >> advanced enough for what you need. If not, InDesign (part of Adobe > >> CS) is the only commercial DTP tool worth considering. It's > >> expensive, though. (And CS3 is out.) > >> > >> Rainer > > > > > > What I'm rather looking for is experiences on writing things directly > > in a markup language, aka troff, TeX, SGML, HTML/CSS - am I dreaming > > there and everyone these days has resorted to using GUI tools only ? > > As far as I know then, you're stuck with TeX. NetBeans has some > capabilities, but it doesn't sound like it will meet your criteria. HTML > won't give you decent book ouutput at all. > > Rainer >
You could also look at DocBook XML. It's kinda similar to LaTeX in its goals but seems to be what the cool kids advocate these days. It can also produce LaTeX output for PDF creation and various HTML options too. On the other hand, I always found getting the toolchain to work a bit of a pig, but there are some docs to help that process. There is a tutorial here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_collab/tutorial/(which is a flash animation version of something that could have been about a 10 line text file IMHO) And more docs here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_collab/tools/ Boyd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070808/d0947e60/attachment.html>
