hg book

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Alexander Poddey
<alexander.poddey at gmx.net>wrote:


> I wonder with which tool the hg book has been written.
>

Emacs.

As a theoretician, I most naturally, would use latex for such a thing. Plain
> latex however is somewhat problematic, because collegues of mine need to
> contribute and are not willing to learn latex....
>

I love LaTeX, but it is not suitable for use in a web environment, nor does
it fit well into the pipelines of any but scientific publishers.
Unfortunately, it's a tremendous pain to process TeX and LaTeX
automatically. Converting the source for the book to DocBook was a lot of
work, and DocBook is much less pleasant to write in than LaTeX, but it was
worth it for the flexibility I gained. So if I were you, I'd think hard
about what output formats you want to support before you write a thing.
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