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Re: [docbook-apps] is docbook the right tool for the job?
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr>
- To: Jason Lewis <jason at dickson dot st>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:58:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] is docbook the right tool for the job?
- Organization: NIC France
- References: <3F556433.4050900@dickson.st>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:46:59PM +1000,
Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st> wrote
a message of 30 lines which said:
> I want to have a printed catalogue for my business, of all the
> products we sell. I have a database that has all the information in
> it and I was hoping to generate the catalogue from my database into
> a docbook format using perl,
I believe that it is not the best use of DocBook. DocBook is for
authors. For producing documents automatically, may be LaTeX would be
better.
Do you need to merge the content of the database with another text,
written by hand?
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