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Re: Questions Concerning Style Sheets
- To: Holger Rauch <Holger dot Rauch at heitec dot de>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Questions Concerning Style Sheets
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at pasteur dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 16:21:35 +0200
- cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
On Friday 7 July 2000, at 9 h 29, the keyboard of Holger Rauch
<Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> wrote:
> 5. Are there any free (and good) WYSIWYG programs available for writing
> DocBook documents
In the SGML/XML world, WYSIWYG means nothing. When you write DocBook, you
describe content and structure, not presentation (which is left to the
stylesheets). If you insist on WYSIWYG (which is an archaic way of thinking
because it assumes only one output device, typically paper), do not use SGML
or XML.
> 8. When I convert tables to TeX, then process the file using jadetex,
> converting it to PostScript using dvips, and then preview it using "xdvi",
> the situation concerning table formatting is even worse.
Yes. I'm afraid there is no solution short of rewriting jadetex or trying
XML+XSL+PassiveTeX.