Re: Re: Question about bug 8206

Mark Flacy <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:53:19 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.arch.user
Message-ID <1160074399l.19228l.3l@flacy>
On 2006.10.05 13:27, Andrea Russo wrote:
> Mark Flacy <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Try this one:
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/x50.html
> 
> That's really a silly misleading reading.
> 
> That page can led to the false belief that TeX and Texinfo can't
> express structure instead of presentation.


_Slightly_ further on in the same document (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/x181.html), we see...

"The Free Software Foundation has made a policy decision to support DocBook as an interchange format. Texinfo has enough structure to make reasonably good automatic conversion possible, and the 4.x versions of makeinfo feature a --docbook switch that generates DocBook."

Note that "reasonably good" doesn't mean perfect, which (once again) implies that presentation-driven markup won't always map one-to-one to logical markup.