[Vorbis-dev] Why Docbook and XML in the first place ??

[Conrad Parker]

Our current issue is that problems with building the existing
documentation are delaying the release of libvorbis, and has been
doing so for some number of months.

Michael has offered to fix those problems, which will allow libvorbis
to be released.

Yippee!

Conrad.

2009/2/8 Yann GUIDON <whygee at f-cpu.org>:
> Michael Crawford wrote:
>> DocBook also allows you to publish to crazy formats like Microsoft
>> HTML Help, and I expect Apple Help as well, if one were to try.
>
> ok maybe, but these formats sound so much "20th century"...
>
>> What's really the most important about DocBook though is that the
>> markup is semantic and structural.  That makes it really easy to
>> generate things like indices, tables of contents and bibliographies.
>> That would be much more difficult if you started with HTML.
>
> then why docbook and not LaTex or ...
>
>> While print-specific CSS stylesheets can improve the quality of web
>> page hardcopies, there's no way they would ever match the quality of a
>> PDF generated by DocBook.  Consider, for example, being able to buy
>> dead-tree editions from http://www.lulu.com/
>
> but ... "you can't grep dead trees" :-/
>
> regards,
>> Mike
> yg
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