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[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 11:37:44 am Jesse Rhoads wrote:
> It looks like the bash guide was done in docbook.  If the author took
> the time, they could get it into PDF, there are plenty of ways to do so.
> But, not being a fan of docbook myself, I could see where he might not
> want to deal with the conversion process. :)
> So what I'm saying is, while I'm sure he thought that a PDF would be
> useful, he probably just got caught in a nasty docbook toolchain
> quagmire, and gave up.
> Been there, done that.  And trust me, no amount of bash-wizardry will
> make docbook play nice when all the xml conversion platforms have gone
> awry. On another note, If anyone has found a way to make docbook "do the
> right thing" despite DTD/XML/Stylesheet differences, by all means, please
> share.

Man, you just made me feel good about my 2001 decision to go with LyX (via 
LaTeX) rather than Docbook/emacs, which I was really considering back in 
those days.

SteveT

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