Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-30 18:40:26 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Reading /usr/share/doc/tex4ht/html/index.html, says that: > > Usage is simplified via the Perl script mk4ht whi

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Mazurek
On 8/30/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? > > > [snip slew of errors when using tex4ht directly from the command line

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? > [snip slew of errors when using tex4ht directly from the command line] Reading /usr/share/doc/tex4ht/html/index.html, says that:

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? On the same file: vin:~/wd/tex> tex4ht wcinverse.tex tex4ht.c (2007-04-21-21:07 kpathsea) tex4ht wcinverse.tex --- warning --- Problem with command line --- error --- Can't f

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:06:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > > than any of the other solu

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-28 13:28:34 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so > horribly verbose that I can't imagine how people put up with maintaining > documents written using it. It's as if the creators got so carried away > adding features that they com

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > than any of the other solutions which I found. HeVeA handles LaTeX > documents with complex format

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-28 Thread - Tong -
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math >> symboles and functions, not always). >> Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > > Considering that this i

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > > thanks for help > > > Have a look at LyX [1] whi

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or > requiring a huge meta-package install. Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so horribly

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > These days I am using texmacs for anything that I previously

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070827 20:28]: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> ... Since there are readily >>> available (as debian packages) ways to turn latex into html, I use latex >>> for ever

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > > turned into ps, pdf, tex

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or > requiring a huge meta-pac

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:29:38AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > Considering that this is exactl

docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math symboles and functions, not always). Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? thanks for help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl