Re: Can extension build own SGML document?

Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> writes:
> On 9/15/15 8:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> AFAICT from a quick look at its documentation, asciidoc can produce
>> either html or docbook output; so as soon as you want something other
>> than html output (in particular, PDF), you're back to relying on the
>> exact same creaky docbook toolchain we use now. Only with one extra
>> dependency in front of it.

> a2x (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/a2x.1.html) states that it can
> generate "PDF, EPUB, DVI, PS, LaTeX, XHTML (single page or chunked), man
> page, HTML Help or plain text formats using asciidoc(1) and other
> applications (see REQUISITES section). SOURCE_FILE can also be a DocBook
> file with an .xml extension."

AFAICS, for all cases other than HTML output, the "other applications"
are basically the docbook toolchain.

> What I expect would be a lot more effort is actually converting all the
> SGML to asciidoc. A quick google search doesn't turn up anything promising.

Yeah, the cost of conversion means we're not likely to want to experiment
to see what's better :-(.

regards, tom lane