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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Translating latex to docbook
Jens Emmerich wrote: > Apart from sectioning and some kinds of lists, LaTeX/TeX's document markup > mixing visual and locigal markup does not allow "correct" automatic > translation into DocBook's more semantic markup. I cann't agree with you. I have a lot of older documents in TeX. It's not problem to use high-level macros to semanticaly markup your TeX documents. If your documents use this approach it is quite easy to write some script to convert them to DocBook. I personally used OmniMark scripting engine for this purpose. It has unique output validating parser - it means that result of transformation can be validated on-the-fly and you can query current context in the XML/SGML output when deciding how to convert something from TeX to XML/SGML. Even very simple script can handle 99 % of TeX input. Rest can be turned to PIs and cleaned manually. But if your TeX source uses low-level formatting commands, nothing will help you. ;-) Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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