David, I understand and appreciate your concern for aesthetically pleasing documentation--particularly for user manuals. A lot of docbook-based pages are plain-looking, but they can be dressed up quite a bit with custom stylesheets. Nevertheless there are limits, and it is difficult to have total layout control.
Regards, --Paul On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 18:57 -0700, David Hill wrote: > Hi Paul, > > The advantage of Docbook is that it would be easily editable by anyone. The > advantage of PDF is that it really suits me as it gives me the ability to > produce a very carefully controlled, beautifully presented document and I > have all the necessary system to do it. Jury is still out, but thanks for > the suggestion. Well worth checking out. > > Best. > > david > > On Apr 3, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Paul Tyson wrote: > > > Docbook (http://www.docbook.org/) might be a good choice if you are > > looking to put the Monet and Synthesizer manuals into a different > > format. There are standard XSLT stylesheets available to convert > > docbook xml to html and pdf. > > > > Regards, > > --Paul > > > > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 13:45 -0700, David Hill wrote: > >> Having done a little checking, it would seem that PDF files are > >> acceptable to GNU projects as there is a "free" PDF reader (though not > >> as comprehensive as the Adobe version yet, one would need to check any > >> file was readable by the current release). > >> > >> > >> Texinfo does *not* seem very suitable for documenting GUI-based apps, > >> IMHO. > >> > >> > >> Comments anyone? > >> > >> > >> david > >> --------- > >> David Hill > >> [email protected] > >> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech > >> -------- > >> The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look > >> respectable. (J.K. Galbraith) > >> -------- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnuspeech-contact mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact > > > _______________________________________________ gnuspeech-contact mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
