At 12 Aug 2003 13:49:53 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > One of the other publishers is using DocBook as their primary system, so > I thought I would have a look at changing from LaTeX. But, as I said, I > need (or at least want) the good author support (outlining, citation, > cross-referencing) that I get with emacs/auctex/reftex.
psgml-mode will fold/unfold elements, thats about as close as I think you'll get to outlining. You could probably add speedbar support or something pretty easily though (I don't think it supports speedbar out of the box, but I haven't tried). It also has lots of ways of moving around the SGML source, so you might find that good enough for skipping around the document. Cross-referencing should work ok (even referencing particular pieces of other docbook files). Like everything else in docbook, the process is very markup-heavy compared to LaTeX. I haven't looked, but I'm guessing citation/bibtex-stuff is one of those "its so easy with XML/SGML that no-one bothers publishing their solution" things. Indeed, given a good bibtex-esque database, it should be quite simple to find all your citations and build another XML/SGML file containing the relevant bibliography. With docbook, be prepared to get familiar with DSSSL or XSLT+some other language. Unlike TeX, your source is data (not code) so will almost certainly need a more complicated build process surrounding it. (I alternated between preferring LaTeX or DocBook for years. I think they each have clear strengths/weaknesses and should be considered carefully on a case-by-case basis. I'm completely sold on ConTeXt at the moment though ;) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
