2 messages in org.oasis-open.lists.docbookRe: [docbook] XML letter| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Mansour | Jul 20, 2006 2:05 pm | |
| Markus Hoenicka | Jul 20, 2006 11:42 pm |
| Subject: | Re: [docbook] XML letter | |
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| From: | Markus Hoenicka (mark...@mhoenicka.de) | |
| Date: | Jul 20, 2006 11:42:04 pm | |
| List: | org.oasis-open.lists.docbook | |
Mansour <mansour77+docb...@ownmail.net> was heard to say:
Hi every body: I am new to docbook, coming from long trip with tex and latex. Decided to move ahead and learn about docbook with XML, in order to take advantage of the extensibility. The question now, how do I write letters in docbook ?? Where can I find tutorials ?? I'm looking to generate a pdf document with header and footer, How ?? Can anyone kindly point me. By the way, I'm using docbook-utils on Fedora 4. Had hard time to generate a document with docbook. So I will stick to this for now.
Before thinking about how to do this, you should think for a moment why you would want to do this in the first place. XML is about structuring the content, about transformation to various output formats (PDF, RTF, XHTML, info, man page, you name it), about accessibility of the contents by external programs and so on. With this in mind, a letter is probably the document type which benefits least from XML, unless you are extremely prolific and rely on some sort of data mining to keep track of your mail. I personally think that a nice LaTeX template is far easier to handle and requires far less typing (no tags).
Just my 2c
Markus
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