Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: db2latex

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Peter Toft writes:
 > What I *really* like to do - I guess this is what you
 > have made - is to parse my SGML/DocBook to standard
 > Latex code, which I can process to PS/PDF-files using
 > the standard Tetex-packages getting a much nicer
 > layout compared to what (pdf)jadetex provides for me
 > today.

If you want to do all your styling work in LaTeX, then forget DSSSL
and all it stands for. Just write a very simple freestanding
Docbook to LaTeX converter. I firmly believe that trying to marry bits
of formatting and transformation in DSSSL with bits of styling in
LaTeX is a recipe for awful confusion.

Mind you, I think you are wrong. Going back to LaTeX is a retrograde
dead-end step, IMHO. 

Sebastian