Re: [docbook] Docbook suggestions

Chris:

 

On his website, Norm Walsh discusses the possible integration of 
DocBook and TEI (see http://norman.walsh.name/2003/10/09/dei).  
TEI is expressly designed for literary texts.  And Sebastian Rahtz has 
designed stylesheets that transform TEI documents into FO, which then 
permits the use of TeX/LaTeX at the back-end (see http://www.tei-c.org/Software/passivetex/).  
So, what you suggest would be possible, more or less, if this integration were 
to occur.

 

In the meantime, you may wish to look at LaTeX (particularly, the Memoir 
and Koma-Script packages) or ConTeXt as alternatives to XML-oriented solutions. 
See www.tug.org, www.ctan.org, and www.pragma-ade.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

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From: Chris Moller <>
Sent: Tuesday, 
December 30, 2003 8:00 PM
To: <>
Subject: [docbook] 
Docbook suggestions
Priority: Normal

For the last year or so, 
I've been putting docbook to a use I don't think it was intended for: writing a 
novel.  Of course, the "book->chapter->sect1->...->para" 
hierarchy doesn't really express the structure of a novel very well -- something 
like "book->chapter->scene->para."  I've been mapping "scene" to 
"sect1", "skip"s to "sect2," etc.  This works fairly well, but the semantic 
tags don't really match the elements, which, after all, is the whole purpose of 
docbook.

So, DocBook Technical Committee, is there any chance of adding a 
"novel" hierarchy to the existing "technical document" hierarchy?

Chris 
Moller

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