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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open SourceDocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]

From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:12:18 +0100 (BST)



On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Dave Pawson wrote:

> How much work is it to target, say, docbook in, pdf out,
> then configure a tex system to support that.
> 
> Surely some of the masses of \tex stuff is redundant in that
> scenario.
no. because "docbook in" is the *least* of the problems. it is the design
of the result which is the killer

> 
> Just *how* much lower is the price with those constraints?

not at all. unless you constrain the output to eg not use tables, or never
use math, or never use color, etc ctec

sebastiuan