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From: Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid>
Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:15:19 +0200
Date: 2012-05-11T00:15:19+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <joherh$b6g$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.wd3m86ylule2fv@douda-yannick

El 10/05/2012 17:42, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) escribió:
> Le Thu, 10 May 2012 17:05:33 +0200, Manuel Collado
> <m.collado@domain.invalid> a écrit:
>
>> 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
>
> Even more DITA, and the authoring style which comes with it (and which
> is already there anyway in the actual RM authoring style). To my
> opinion, if DocBook is to be favored for something, that would be for
> learning materials, where a document is to be read from start to end, as
> an uninterrupted flow. The RM is more like a random‑access access
> document, with many self‑sufficient parts.
>
>> IMHO, the most promising line of attack is to keep the current source
>> markup, and provide a lossless XML export facility.
>
> I vote for that one too. Would be too much a nightmare with too few
> added value for Randy, to switch to another source format. If there is
> something to do at the source level, that's just to avoid potential lack
> of semantic markup (I noticed some a long time ago, but forget where,
> sorry, will tell if I land to it again).

Please note that I'm not suggesting a direct conversion/export from the 
current markup to DITA. My preference is to just translate each current 
mark to an equivalent XML tag. This way the full structure and contents 
of the ARM is preserved, while allowing immediate application of 
standard XML tools and techniques to process it for producing additional 
final formats (single-page HTML, MS-Windows HTML help, Latex->PDF with 
working links, FOP->PDF with working links, DocBook, DITA, and more).

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




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-29 15:22 Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format Stephen Leake
2012-04-30  6:06 ` Jerrid Kimball
2012-05-01  3:19   ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-01  6:06     ` Thomas Løcke
2012-05-01  9:56       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-03 15:26       ` J Kimball
2012-05-03 14:26     ` [OT] CSS max-width (Was: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-05-03 15:52       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-03 22:34         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-03 15:23     ` Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format Jerrid Kimball
2012-05-03 23:25       ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-04  1:28         ` BrianG
2012-05-09 11:17         ` Oliver Kleinke
2012-05-09 12:06           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-09 13:00             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 13:56               ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-09 14:09                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 14:52                   ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-09 16:33                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-09 16:39                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 16:51                   ` Jerrid Kimball
2012-05-09 17:21                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 19:53                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 10:15                         ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-09 19:59                     ` Simon Wright
2012-05-10  1:42                     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10  7:21                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-10  7:35                         ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10  9:43                           ` Simon Wright
2012-05-10 10:44                           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-05-10 13:19                             ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-11 11:49                               ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-11 15:06                                 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 15:05                           ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-10 15:42                             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10 22:15                               ` Manuel Collado [this message]
2012-05-11  1:16                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-11 10:47                                   ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-11 11:35                                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-12  0:52                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-14 11:03                                       ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-12 10:04                                     ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-14 11:07                                       ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-11 11:47                           ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-11 14:42                             ` Simon Wright
2012-05-12 10:52                               ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-12  0:59                             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10 13:47                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-11 11:57                         ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-11 12:55                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-11 13:43                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-12  0:46                       ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10  0:57                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10  7:13                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-10 13:37                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10 15:02                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-10 15:32                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10 15:58                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-11  2:23                           ` Oliver Kleinke
2012-05-10  1:32           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10  1:54           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-11  2:36             ` Oliver Kleinke
2012-05-12  1:08               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10 10:11           ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-11  2:07             ` Oliver Kleinke
2012-05-11  2:44               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-11  2:50                 ` Oliver Kleinke
2012-05-11  7:51                 ` Suggestion for RM HTML formatter extension (Was: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-05-11 10:03                   ` Martin
2012-05-11 15:32                   ` Suggestion for RM HTML formatter extension Simon Wright
2012-05-11 15:53                     ` Simon Wright
2012-05-11 21:01                       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-05-11 21:04                       ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-11 21:59                     ` Simon Wright
2012-05-12 10:48                       ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-12 12:34                         ` Simon Wright
2012-05-14 11:36                     ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-14 16:20                       ` Simon Wright
2012-05-15  7:02                       ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-15  8:54                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-12 10:37                 ` Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format Stephen Leake
2012-05-12  1:43               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-12 10:33               ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-19  3:58               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-11 11:59             ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-01 11:51   ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-03 15:03     ` Jerrid Kimball
2012-05-03 21:52       ` Manuel Collado
2012-05-03 22:43         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-04  7:58       ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-05 14:23         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-06 16:13           ` Stephen Leake
2012-05-06 16:27             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-08  0:54             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-03 15:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-03 22:40   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-23 20:46 ` Oliver Kellogg
2013-02-24 19:06   ` Stephen Leake
2013-02-25 23:27     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-26  4:05       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-26 13:23         ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-26 19:49           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-26 22:04           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-04-02 17:50       ` M. Strobel
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