[Edu-sig] How best to publish?...

[Jeffrey Elkner]

I have a question that I think is of importance to our efforts.

What format is best suited to creating content that can be both web ready and
generate good looking printed copy from the same source?  At this point I have
settled on learning DocBook, but the big problem with DocBook is that the tools
needed to use it affectively are propriatary and expensive.

Looking into my crystal ball (or is it mearly wishful thinking ;-)  I see a not
too distant day when DocBook XML is completed and I wealth of really cool tools
(written in Python, of course!) are available for it.

Any comments?  It is really important for me that I figure out the right way to
do this.  I don't have the time I need to do what I'm trying to do already, so
I can't afford to just look around and check things out.  I am willing to learn
and use any format, but I want to learn and use only one, and I want it to be
the one that the Python community is most likely to rally around and support. 
Am I dreaming, or is there such a format?

jeff elkner

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Steve Morris wrote:
> Jeffrey Elkner writes:
>> If anyone has any time on their hands and wants to help out, it would be a big
>> help to me if we could get the livewires course materials put into some web
>> ready format.
> 
> Does anyone else wish that people would stop publishing things in .pdf
> format. It is the second most user unfriendly way of distributing
> information electronically, second only to bitmap images. The content
> is no longer available in any form except graphically. You can't even
> do a text search to find relevent sections. pdf is a compressed and
> scalable way of distributing graphics that might incidentally contain
> fonts.