Hi again, Michelle. I think that, for such a long document (2500 pages, 11 volumes), LaTeX makes very good sense. Using the LaTeX "\include" directive, you could keep each volume in a separate file, and yet LaTeX would process the set of files as one large document.
And LaTeX provides valuable features such as chapter-level tables of contents, automated generation of an index, and automated generation of a bibliography. Converting the DVI output of LaTeX to PDF is easy and trouble-free, even for very long documents. You should read the introduction to the hyperlatex manual for a discussion of the considerations involved when writing a single document which is to be displayed in multiple formats. If you needed only HTML, then XML or SGML might be a reasonable approach. But if you need PDF as well as HTML, I think it would be very difficult to produce satisfactory PDF documents from XML or SGML. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
