Re: defxx regression in docbook output cvs texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:09:07AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> 
> What do you see as the role of DocBook in the texinfo project?
> Is it just another output format you'd like to support, or do
> you see it as "strategic"?

I may consider it to be more strategic than Karl, because it is used 
as the basis for KDE and GNOME documentation systems.  They also read 
or process Info, but the result is not very pretty.

There is a fundamental issue, however, DocBook has no construct for some
Texinfo commands (for instance all that is syntaxic markup, although not
very Texinfo characteristic, it exists) and also different constraints,
for instance an index may be anywhere in Texinfo but only at the
beginning or end in DocBook.


Regarding the customization, I think that more than one route will be
available with texi2any.  As Karl said HTML is much more customizable, 
and we hope to provide a LaTeX backend not so far in the future.  But it
is also possible to go through the Texinfo XML, I believe it is now much 
more in line with the initial Texinfo code.  Then there is the
possibility to write a new backend that is much easier now that there is
a clean (perl data) tree produced.  And the DocBook route is still 
possible.

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Pat