Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-18 07:30:11

on Mon Oct 17 2011, Daniel James <dnljms-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 October 2011 06:35, Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> To be honest, I've been quite disappointed with DocBook and its
>> ugly hack (tool chain) at generating PDF files.
>
> O'Reilly use docbook for all of their books, although they might use
> commercial software for generating the final book. I'm not sure. But
> it is possible to get decent results from docbook. 

Sure.  Since docbook is a semantically rich format, you can translate it
into LaTeX, or whatever.  The problem is the usual backends.

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Dave Abrahams
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