[xmlroff] Texinfo-XML-to-FO stylesheet?

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Mon Jul 16 11:02:15 UTC 2007


-On [20070716 12:51], Tony Graham (Tony.Graham at MenteithConsulting.com) wrote:
>Except that seems to be going in the other direction: from DocBook into
>Texinfo XML.

Sorry Tony, I guess I am a bit absentminded today.

>It would be better if people produced their formatted documentation from
>DocBook XML, but that doesn't mean much if all they've been provided
>with is the Texinfo version.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/2002/11/01/awk3.html documents
how how Arnold went from Texinfo to DocBook, interesting read.

>The "developed some years ago" and "bears some resemblance" are such
>nice put-downs.  They really let you know which is the best and most
>modern alternative.

For most of my technical documentation I use reST and DocBook/XML nowadays.
very accessible formats.

Personally I never quite fancied the info documentation, especially the
horrendous default keybindings.

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