From: Kevin S. Van Horn (Kevin.VanHorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-29 16:07:55
As I see it, the advantages of DocBook are
1. Well-established standard tool (same advantage applies to LaTex, but
not to home-grown XML or the ReStructuredText Dave mentioned).
2. Readily-available tools to convert to both HTML (for Web presentation)
and Tex/postscript/PDF (for printed documentation).
- Whether or not it is easy to do this conversion on platforms other
than Unix isn't a big deal, as it only has to be done once for each
release, and then the converted forms can be distributed as part of
the Boost package.
- The lack of a reasonable printed form for Boost documentation has
always been an irritating problem.
3. The focus is on structure, not presentation. This makes it much more
suitable for automatic processing to extracting indices and other
information from the documentation. For example, one could
automatically generate the Concepts Dictionary that I've mentioned in
the past.
I think that (2) and (3) are especially important.