On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:52, Derek Smithies wrote:
> For writing books, (La)TeX is the way to go.
> 
> You get a book that has professional, production ready fonts.
> 
> You get a book that is readily transformed into pdf, html or postscript. 
>  The html output is clean and concise.
If you want your document to be transformed into multiple formats then I
suggest Docbook XML. The "xmlto" package will transform the Docbook XML
source into FO, PDF, PostScript, HTML, XHTML, pain-text, JavaDoc,
Microsoft Windows HTML Help, and (horrors) roff. The full Docbook XML
language is designed for technical writing,  but there is a simplified
version that will suffice for a more casual book.

Having said that, I prefer LaTeX to Docbook as the syntax is not as
verbose (damn XML\ldots)

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Michael JasonSmith                                   http://www.ldots.org/

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