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RE: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open SourceDocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]
- To: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open SourceDocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:12:18 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: docbook-apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> How much work is it to target, say, docbook in, pdf out,
> then configure a tex system to support that.
>
> Surely some of the masses of \tex stuff is redundant in that
> scenario.
no. because "docbook in" is the *least* of the problems. it is the design
of the result which is the killer
>
> Just *how* much lower is the price with those constraints?
not at all. unless you constrain the output to eg not use tables, or never
use math, or never use color, etc ctec
sebastiuan