composing a book

[revilord]

I am starting to design a new project. The project will take raw data and create a book from it. The book will have TOC, Index, sections, page numbers and everything else a book would have. I have created these books before but only to the point where I format the data where composition program would take it and turn it into PDF's or postscript. Now that I am on my own I don't have the compostion program so I need to figure out a way to compose the book but the only thing that comes to mind is Crystal Reports or using css but I think there is something more straight forward then either of those options.

Basically I need to format the data so it looks nice and can be output to PDF.

 

[chiph]

Do a Google on SGML. The format has been around forever, and PDF/HTML/XML/etc. are subsets of it.

Chip H.


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