Re: [docbook-apps] Master thesis in DocBook

["Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh at logicsquad dot net>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:33:58PM +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> 
> >What is the subject area?  IMHO, I wouldn't write a mathematics
> >thesis in anything but LaTeX, but DocBook and a decent XSLFO
> >formatter should be up to the task for anything else.  As mentioned
> >by Jeffrey, the formatter is probably the critical tool in the
> >chain.
> 
> Several times I wrote mathematical text in DocBook and embeded
> equations as TeX source directly into DocBook. Then I used modified
> version of db2latex to get very nice PDF full of math.

OK---I guess I meant 'I wouldn't use a typesetter other than TeX for
mathematics'.  How modified was db2latex, and why did you need to
modify it?


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Paul.

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