[MPlayer-dev-eng] A Modest LyX/HTML Example

[Daniel Egger]

Am Mit, 2002-02-27 um 16.41 schrieb Mike Melanson:

> 	You must have a very different definition of 'pain' than I do: LyX
> is the best and easiest document processor I've ever used in my life.

Well, my girlfriend is using it regularly and I'm cursing because I have
to clean up after it. :) But it's not bad for someone who's not willing
to learn a new language.

> I'm a little ignorant of LaTeX and texinfo, but tell me, wouldn't those
> choices entail having the document maintainers learn a whole new markup
> language (or 2) and use a text editor in order to manually maintain the
> markup structure?

The whole difference between LaTeX/LyX/HTML and DocBook is that the
former is used to layout documents while the latter is used to mark
up the structure of it while the layout is completely the matter
of the processor. This explanation is quite weak though because the
borders are diverging:
- XHTML with CSS can be also used to differentiate
  between layout and structure though is bad for conversion
  into different file formats
- LaTeX is quite convertible but particularly bad for keeping structure

> Are there automated tools that hide the details of the
> underlying markup language so the author can concentrate on content?

There are editors for DocBook for instance but you'll never be able to
hide all of the markup work from the author because that's the whole
point of a markup language.

> If not, how is LaTeX and texinfo better than the raw HTML that we're
> currently maintaining?

I wouldn't encourage to use any of those both to replace the current
HTML documentation because they really belong to the same class.
 
-- 
Servus,
       Daniel