hgbook on bitbucket
Christian Ebert
blacktrash at gmx.net
Thu Feb 12 16:10:57 CST 2009
* Matt Mackall on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 15:49:09 -0600
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 19:49 +0100, Peer Sommerlund wrote:
>> 2009/2/12 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
>> [cut]
>>
>> So I'd say, please stop talking about "HTML or PDF" and start
>> talking about
>> "What's the best way to create HTML _and_ PDF?"
>>
>>
>> The ideas we already have is
>>
>> * LaTeX
There's also plasTeX (written in pyton) for html conversion, but
...
>> * Docbook
>> * reStructuredText
>>
>> How about asciidoc? It is already used for man pages.
>
> And I'm not particularly happy with it. There are annoying corner-cases
> that are hard to work around.
>
> I also don't think it (or reST) is up to the demands of making a
> well-typeset book with lots of pretty pictures and diagrams of the kind
> a major publisher would put in bookstores. And that's what we're aiming
> for, folks.
I don't see a really well typeset book and html coming from the
same source. The media differ too much. Almost like making a
movie from a book. The logical structure, and logical markup
approach may be similar, but all conversions I've seen so far are
a compromise and smell of it.
That being said, it's Bryan's book, it's phantastic, and it's his
decision how to screw it up ;-)
c
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