Many thanks for your reply! I would certainly go this way having a
couple of months or a year perspective. Besides I'm eager to try
finally the new way mkIV deals with xml. But realistically, preparing
and testing a mapping of even a subset of DocBook is a question of at
least a couple of personmonths if not worse. Sadly, I'm not in a
position to that now.
Best
Piotr
2011/6/2 Thomas Schmitz
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:39:46 +0200 Piotr Kopszak
wrote: Dear list,
I am beginning a rather tedious documentation project and will most probably end up with DocBook. The fact is I haven't used it for any serious work for about 10 years. Docbook In ConText haven't been updated since 2003. Does it mean it's so perfect or instead rather obsolete? Could you recommend other approaches which work out-of-the-box (or almost). Obviously I would prefer ConTeXt based solutions. DocBook is not mandatory in fact, I would happily learn other documentation system. Main prerequisite is utf-8 output at least in pdf and html and sensible defaults (this time I don't want to be a typographer, nor I want to fiddle with structure).
Best
Piotr -- http://okle.pl
Difficult to say of course without knowing the complexity of your documents, but just a few thoughts: if you're referring to Simon Pepping's "Docbook in ConTeXt," this was targeted at mkii, so it will probably still work, but could be considered obsolete. xml support in mkiv has changed a lot, but is much more powerful and flexible. It's fairly easy to write a stylesheet to translate your xml for typesetting, so I would look at the relevant xml documentation (like xml-mkiv.pdf) and make a fresh start. You can always refine and elaborate things as you go, and if you really hit a wall, there's the list.
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