Bruce D'Arcus (bdarcus@fastmail.fm) wrote:
In my little experience with this, it seems you'd want a module (or is an environment better?) that specifies the formatting for the document (just as you would for any ConTeXt document). This works perfectly for those structures that ConTeXt supports, but not for those that it doesn't (author, subtitle, abstract, epigraph, etc., etc.).
I'd like something like: dic* DocBook -------> ConTeXt ----> output *dic = DocBookInConTeXt module which is similar to XSL toolchain: xslt fop DocBook ------> XSL-FO -----> output with the exception that ConTeXt format is more user-friendly & capable than xsl-fo format, and produces best quality output. In this way, we have best of both worlds :-) ie. one can use & automatically process DocBook-authored documents to get high quality. If it is possible to get ConTeXt *.tex file after processing DocBook *.xml file with DocBookInConTeXt module (of course, for those structures that are supportedin it), I'd like to know how? Btw, I consider that providing DocBook (xml) as an input format will bring many more users to ConTeXt because high-quality output is what prevents many to use DocBook as an authoring tool (besides those who are rich enough to buy commercial FO engines - mostly corporate users). With time, one can also expect that DocBookInConText module will get more users' input and be able to map more DocBook elements. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493