Docbook Vs. Other Formats for Gnucash Documents

[Tom Browder]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 04:21 schrieb Tom Browder:
>> I've once more looked at docbook and all its promises, but see no
>> significant progress with free tools to convert it to other than html.
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> I'm not so sure whether we should "TeX" as the measure here. Nevertheless I'd
> wholeheartly agee that docbook-xml has its drawbacks as well. Some of them
> were promised to go away over time but haven't, others are just a minor
> nuisance.
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>> I would like to hear any thoughts about changing from docbook-xml to
>> another format with currently available tools that can produce html as
>> well as pdf (I'm considering ConTeXt for one; see
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> In principle there isn't any strong reason to stick with docbook-xml so far.
> Hence, anyone who is willing to do the migration work can propose and
> implement a migration to another format or text markup language, if desired.
> However, one should be really sure that the benefits of the newly chosen
> format outweigh its drawbacks when compared to the existing format. In other

Well, I'm still looking and trying the seemingly much-improved Apache
fop (version 0.95) to see if I can get some good pdf output from the
existing docbook source.

-Tom