Thanks Fred,

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Frederic Peters <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jim Campbell wrote:
>
> > Their sysadmin guide is done with DocBook + Publican. One of the good
> > things about this approach is that it can be output to multiple formats -
> > HTML, PDF, and ePub. I think this would be appropriate for a sysadmin
> > guide, as the sysadmin might want to print out the materials and have
> them
> > on their desks.
> >
> > I know that there is a mobile output for Mallard a this time, but it's
> > pretty experimental. The stylesheets for the DocBook > epub and PDF
> outputs
> > are pretty well tested.
> >
> > What do you think about the possibility of using DocBook + Publican for
> the
> > sysadmin guide?
>
> I like Mallard, in general, and in this case as it would then be very
> easy for the various distributors to provide extra pages.
>
> About PDF output, Shaun had a start with mal2latex[1] and I extended
> it at work[2] to provide suitable documents to our customers.
>
>
>        Fred
>
> [1] http://gitorious.org/projectmallard/mal2latex
> [2] http://repos.entrouvert.org/mal2latex.git/
> _______________________________________________
>

This is excellent.

Let us proceed with Mallard, then.

Jim
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