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Re: Creating Different Output Formats Using DocBook V4.1 XML
Sean Donnellan writes:
> fun watching it happen to others. I must admit that I wish there was a
> command like NIKE (just do it) for all documents.
if you constrain yourself far enough, there is. I (oh heresy!) use TEI
for all my XML. i edit it all in emacs. I do all my conversion using
XSL, and all my formatting use TeX. My universe is pretty Nike,
thanks. of course for all the tribes beyond the law....
> I'm trying to get my needs serviced and SGML/XML is far from perfect as I
> don't know how to use them properly and yet I prefer not thinking about
> what MS products would do to my hardware needs before doing nasty things
> to my documents :-).
its your brain and heart they kill. those apoplexies when it says "reboot your
computer now" take years off your life.
> P.s. does anyone have a small example of a table of dates/events that
> looks good on TeX, through SGML db4.1 and DSSSL Style Sheets 1.54 (using
> (open)jade/ jadetex/ dvips)???? :-)
define "looks good". presumably Norm (can I be cruel?) thinks the
default printed look from his DB stylesheets "looks good". I think its
looks a fright.
Sebastian