RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Translating latex to docbook

[Jens Emmerich <Jens dot Emmerich at brokat-le dot com>]

Hi,

Probably best is to use something like untex to remove any markup and add
mark up accordingly by hand. That's quicker for a one-shot solution than
configuring any (complex) transafromation tool.

Apart from sectioning and some kinds of lists, LaTeX/TeX's document markup
mixing visual and locigal markup does not allow "correct" automatic
translation into DocBook's more semantic markup.

See also Sebastian's advice:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200007/msg00218.html

which partially applies to LaTeX as well, depending on the amount of visual
markup.

Jens

Btw. I had those exceptionally clean Word files to convert, but it was a lot
of clean-up anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Blagojevic [mailto:vladimir@xisnext.2y.net]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 01:31
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Translating latex to docbook
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does someone know less painful translation process from latex 
> to docbook
> than tex4ht?  It will take me at least two days to set up this tex4ht
> enviroment and all I need is one shot translation of a 3000 
> words document
> from latex to docbook?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
> 
>