Re: [PLUG] how to support txt,html,ps and pdf?

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I'm a LaTeXer. I tried DocBook, but it didn't do what I wanted easily.

I like LaTeX b/c it works for minimal formatting and makes it look good in
many formats. Changing defaults is really hard. I found the same troubles
w/ DocBook. I just want to write fiction here.

Anyway, I can help w/ latex. If I'm wrong about DocBook. please say so. I
want to make courier 12 pt files doublespaced. That's all.

I use the shortcuts so I don't have to write long things, in latex, and I
use the feature where it compresses spaces  so I don't have   to fix
errors like this.

doxygen rules. It's almost like getting something for nothing. You can
learn it in 10 min to generate reams of docs for your code.

Please tell me what you chose and why.

Fred Ollinger



> I think you mean DocBook.
> Original documents are created in SGML or XML format and they can be
> converted to all other formats.
> try
> www.docbook.org
>
> sarod.
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Kyle R . Burton wrote:
>
> > I know some open source projects write their documentation in some meta
> > format that allows them to support txt, html, ps, and pdf output formats,
> > but I am not familliar with the software or toolsets used to do this.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience writing documentation using any such toolsets?
> > Can you make a recommendation?
> >
> > I'm about to start a serious documentation effort for an open source project,
> > and would like to make the documentation as available as possible.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kyle R. Burton
> >
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