Re: [docbook] DTD from extended RNC

[maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>]

On 2018-05-21 16:11, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 21/05/18 14:42, maxwell wrote:
> [...]
> > FWIW, we had an analogous problem: we want to produce PDFs from XML
> > documents about linguistics.  We chose DocBook as the base, and got 
> > rid
> > of a ton of things in the RNG/RNC that were irrelevant to our use 
> > case,
> > then added a few that we needed for linguistics.
>
> FWIW I'm curious to know why you didn't pick TEI, as it was designed
> expressly to have linguistic markup.

I'm not sure I remember now, that was a long time ago.  I suspect it had 
to do with the availability of wysiwym editors for DocBook (we chose 
XMLmind), the availability of relatively recent means of converting 
DocBook XML to LaTeX (dblatex; there is discussion of a TEI XML-to-LaTeX 
converter, I see, but it doesn't appear to be maintained), and a feeling 
(on my part) that TEI was too kitchen sink (although from my perspective 
DocBook suffers that as well, just to a lesser degree).

It's quite possible that none of these reasons is good; if so, it's my 
fault, because I was the one investigating alternatives.  I do plead 
that I was quite rushed.

   Mike Maxwell