Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:30, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > hi, > > am just getting into the basics of the above, and with links flying fast and > > furious as to DocBook, TeX and others, i feel a wee bit confused. which is > > used for what ? and if i start off with TeX does it mean that DocBook and > > others are also required to be fully conversant with ? where are the end > > use(s) ? i mainly require a template that can be utilised to produce > > properly formatted reports on a regular basis, so where do i begin ? > > answers awaited > > regards and thanks a lot for the links, wish we could consolidate them at > > the site itself > > sm > > Actually, Docbook is a markup language (like HTML) which lets you get > the output in a number of formats including Tex. (Of course, it cannot > handle the advanced features of Tex), but for normal doc. writing > purposes, it works fine. (all major documentation projects use it as you > can get output in a huge number of formats just from a single file). > Another nice advantage is that it automatically generates the table of > contents - that saves a lot of trouble. For a document produced by > docbook, check out > www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html > www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.pdf > www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.rtf > > All produced from a single source file :-) > > -sayamindu-
Sayamindu is right. DocBook will let you produce output in various formats from a single file. In this age when documents are presentable in multiple media and diverse formats, this is a great convenience. The limitation is that using DocBook you cannot write any great deal of mathematics (which is one of the things TeX is very good for). Pictures? I don't know. What does Sayamindu say? On the whole, DocBook is a good thing for most document processing needs. - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
