AW: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

["Schlienger, Marc" <M.Schlienger@bjoernsen.de>]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Joachim Ziegler [SMTP:ziegler@algorilla.de]
> Gesendet am:	Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 17:44
> An:	Norman Walsh
> Cc:	Steve.Ball@zveno.com; DocBook
> Betreff:	DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 14:46 schrieb Norman Walsh:
> >
> > In computer hardware and software documentation? Maybe. Maybe not.
> >
> > Exercises seem more like a teaching tool, an extension for tutorial
> > documentation, perhaps. Still, the question has come up before. I
> > wonder what else fits in that category?
> >
> 
> I often give courses about programming and software technologies. In these
> 
> course, the participants have to do a lot of exercises. Normally I use
> Latex 
> to produce the handouts. 
> 
> My last course was on XML and of course, *this* handout had to be written
> in 
> XML itself in order to demonstrate the power of the technology. I was
> using a 
> simple DTD and stylesheets of my own to produce HTML and PDF.
> 
> Now I want to change to DocBook (as Docbook is a major subject in this
> course 
> and as the stylesheets are much more sophisticated than mine). I really
> miss 
> an exercise-tag, but maybe that's not what DocBook was designed for.
> 
> BTW, I've written a book about learning programming. It was coded in Latex
> 
> (and in German). I'm currently evaluating DocBook as a basis for the
> second 
> print of this book or for some other book about programming (mainly
> because I 
> like the ability to output HTML). The more I learn, the less I'm convinced
> 
> that the current state of the XSL technology will produce a high quality
> PDF 
> output comparable to Latex. Am I right? 
	[Schlienger, Marc]  I find this an interesting question and, since
I'm also new to DocBook, I would be pleased to see answers on this subject
from the gurus ;-)

> (I you want to peek at it: www.algorilla.de/PLMP)
> 
> If DocBook is not the right DTD for writing a book about programming 
> (including exercises), what else in the XML world is? Should I stick with 
> Latex?
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim