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Subject: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex
Hi, I'm currently in the process of deciding which too to use for writing our software documentation and have been playing around with docbook for a while. The main goal is to have one source of text that is used to generate both printable and online documentation. I used to work with latex at university but must admit, I haven't touched it in a few years. So far comparing the two lead to the following impression. - latex is by far more comprehensive and better documented (of course, it's been around much longer) - docbook is simpler and therefore easier to use - docbook-xsl is a very flexible mechanism to generate and customize html-output whereas latex2html doesn't seem to be maintained very well - docbook has some strange concepts (e.g. xrefs to a section resolving to the "Sexction x.y" instead of just the number, making it unflexible for no real benefit) - working with large documents appears to require more thought and organization with docbook than with latex At the moment I would probably go for latex if I had a good translator to HTML but on the other hand I feel I still know to little about docbook and might be missing something. I suppose many people have been in my situation and made a decision. can anyone share experience? thanks in advance robert
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