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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Ramon Casellas wrote: ]>> But DocBook is primary focused on software documentation. If we add ]>> something very special for mathematics (like maththeorem), we should To grab a fairly useful book on computer science. Donald E Knuth Volume 3: Searching and Sorting: The art of COmputer Programming Addison Wesley Publishing Company: Reading, MA: 1973 ISBN 0-201-03803-X Can that book be written using DocBook? [ It obviously can be written using LaTeX. ] ]>> If mathematicals want, they can create ustomization layer adding ]>> maththeorem and other elements. Maybe using something like <formalpara ]>Yes, we can... That is what I did. BUT it is not DocBook anymore (so in ]>some sense, we are losing one of its advantages). Why not 'core' DocBook plus modules? A math module for those who need all the math stuff. WOuld statistics be a different module, or the same? Biology would need a different module. Psychology _might_ need its own module. A language/linguistics module for those who write in four or five languages, each with its own writing system. [ On second thoughts, that might/probably would be usefull for the core module. ] xan jonathon -- http://www.eskimo.com/~hwa/index.html
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