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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Trying to compile the DocBook book.
I'm not sure it should be a source for printing the book - one of the tex or latex books, I forget which, was circulating (10 years ago) with a license that said "you may *not* commit this to print; it is only available as a test case for processing tools." That was 10 years ago. Today, I'd think that a significant reason to buy the book on the shelf is simply that O'reilly is *better* at it than you'll be; lay-flat binding, better paper quality (ok, maybe not), economies of scale... along with secondary economic issues (supporting the continued existance of publishers, supporting small bookstores... I'd say supporting authors through that, but I've heard that authors don't *get* enough for that to be a credible argument :-) Anyway, having a complete book also serves as a benchmark case for processing and conversion tools and systems, both in that a system is more credible if it can do full end to end processing of The Book, and that one can say "look, here's a real book, and all these tools work with it" is a compelling argument for developing new content in DocBook (and such arguments are needed, to get people to actually bother climbing the learning curve, instead of just poking around in Word (feh) or raw HTML (feh!)...)
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