Re: Document Formats


Paul M. Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:47:27 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kim Lester wrote:

>
> I believe it fair to say that current concensus
> would be for an SGML/XML/Docbook/DTD type solution
> provided it:
> a) Supports potentially sophisticated indexing requirements
> b) Supports some form of categorisation structure
> c) Supports linking separate document sections
> d) Is not too hard to learn a usaable subset fairly quickly
> e) Enough free/open tools are available to permit actual use.
> f) At least some converters exist to/from existing formats
>
>
> I'm going off to learn more about
> info/texInfo - I/we need to be unbiased
> SGML/XML/DTDs etc
>

For those of us who have other "non-paying" projects to work on as well,
can you summarize what you find?

Paul M. Foster



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