Re: docBook or latex

On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +0000, 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-package install. Since there are readily
> available (as debian packages) ways to turn latex into html, I use latex
> for everything.

All of them I tried produce bad HTML.

Conversely, you can convert DocBook into LaTeX with dblatex (the description claims that MathML 2.0 markups are supported).

> Also, there's the visual quality of the output. I don't think there's
> anything that produces nicer output than Tex.

The solution is to convert DocBook files into LaTeX first.

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