[TriLUG] Desktop Publishing.

[rpjday]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Christian J Hedemark wrote:

> Bryan wrote:
> >  I have been looking around the net and have come to the conclusion that
> > there really is not much activity in the Linux Community in the area of
> > desktop publishing. I am not referring to work processors, but software
> > similar to PageMaker, QuarkXpress, InDesign, ect.  The closes thing I can
> > find is a commercial program, ArtStream, but it seems to be focused on
> > graphics and illustration.
> 
> Well the way the industry appears to be going, or at least the tech sector,
> is XML.  O'Reilly now appears to be standardized on it.  They have a lot of
> info on their web site for authors, and I believe they cover appropriate
> software packages to use.  Yes, this is targeted specifically towards people
> who will be writing for O'Reilly.  But it would be a great place to start.
> I haven't looked there in about a year or so but due to some work I've been
> doing here I probably need to check that out soon.
> 
> The XML obviously doesn't do any layout work.  That's the job of the
> stylesheet.  If you're looking at doing primarily text with simple figures &
> illustrations, you may want to have a look at DocBook.  At the very least
> its got all of the appropriate markup to convert it to some other format if
> needed.

and just as a side note, tim waugh at red hat has made my little 
docbook+xml+xsl mini-doc pretty well obsolete by updating his web page:
www.cyberelk.net/tim/docbook.  all the latest RPMs (many from rawhide),
plus an updated "xmlto" script frontend.

rday