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Subject: DOCBOOK: General roadmap questions
Hello Group, Our situation: ~60 engineers, UNIX/Solaris for SW development, Personal workstations running NT and (a few, but growing) Linux. During past years we've been using Digital Runoff, DecWrite, Interleaf and now MS-Word for technical documentation, and things have not really improved. For instance, automatic generation of documents has not been made easier, and only a few doc's written in LaTeX have lasted over the years without conversion. Recently I've come across the DocBook, and I think SGML/XML would be an excellent choice for (at least) our generated documents. If we can give something to the WISYWIG adepts, we might even get rid of MS-Word. (The emacs SGML mode may even be sufficient for most of our tecchies.) Now my questions: - What would be the best way for producing hardcopy? (I understand that rtf is an out-of-the-box result of applying jade, but what's the best way (w/o starting MS-Word) of getting PostScript from that? Star Office (with a simple example) works OK, but we need to do this from a script, in the background. Is TeX the best way? Is there a way via rtf to pdf/Acrobat?) - For hardcopy, we'll have to modify the stylesheets to include our custom page headers and footers. (Is that correct?) Generally: Is DSSSL ("never achieved widespread use") the best bet, or should we rather use CSS? XSL?? - Scheme: Are there any substantial differences to (e)lisp? I haven't found any documentation on Scheme (but I admit I didn't try hard). - It doesn't all have to be free. We're also investigating commercial products. Any experiences? Thank you, -Wolfgang
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