Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: db2latex

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Peter Toft writes:
 > My main reason for looking at an SGML/XML to Latex
 > converter is that the PDF/PS output I can make using
 > openjade is not nearly as nice looking compared to what
 > I can make using native Latex. 

That is 99%  due to familiarity with the tools, I suspect. I too can
make a better book using LaTeX than XSL FO, but the gap is closing the
more I use XSLT and XSL FO (it helps that I format FO using TeX!).

pragmatically, you are right, especially if you are stuck using DSSSL
and JadeTeX. But I still believe that the future is not LaTeX-shaped.

Sebastian