Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

[Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid>]

El 10/05/2012 9:35, Nasser M. Abbasi escribi�:
>...
> Why not use Latex? Then you get the full 30 years of latex
> scientific publication tools that Latex has, with all the
> indexing, table of contents, bibliography, page numbers,
> cross referneces, tables, figure, graphics, etc.. and
> zillions of latex packages that comes with it for free.
>
> Then use Latex2html to convert everything to HTML. Use
> pdflatex to generate PDF, generate .ps etc... all from
> the SAME plain text source files. see
>
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/
> http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/conversions
>
> I do not know why any one will choose a different tool
> to publish anything. It is all there ;)

LaTeX is excellent in creating the final publishing format. But it lacks 
enough separation between contents and presentation. Other XML-based 
markup languages, like DocBook or DITA, seem much more appropriate as 
contents source code. They contain little presentation style 
information, or none at all. Converting them to the final publishing 
format is the role of a separate, companion stylesheet or utility.

This way the same source can be effectively converted to a bunch of 
final formats with moderate effort.

IMHO, the most promising line of attack is to keep the current source 
markup, and provide a lossless XML export facility.

-- 
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado