> I want to make a presentation that is visible on a series of web pages.
> I have too many choices, and I'm not sure which way to go.  If this
> were a few years back, I'd code it in HTML and move on.  But I've been
> looking at XML and I've made a few pages (with CSS definitions.)
> Then I read CSS is not the future, and I struggle with putting HTML
> on the same page as the XML (for links to the next page as an example.)
> There's also DHTML.  Or I could write it in LaTeX and translate it to
> HTML but then pictures would have to be in EPS format.  I like having lots of
> choices, but I'd like it more if I knew which one to pick for this on-line
> presentation.  I'm open to suggestions.  I'm willing to learn something new
> if it makes sense for now and in the future.  (No, I don't want to do it
> in nroff!)

Roger:

DHTML == Micro$oft.  Works only in IE AFAIK.  Don't go there.

How about SGML, using the Linuxdoc-SGML tools or something like that?
I looked at the Linux documentation HOWTOs on www.linuxdoc.org and they
say that "The HOWTOs are written in SGML, and translated to different 
output formats using SGML-Tools."

So it looks like if you write your document in SGML then you can gener-
ate HTML, PDFs, PostScript, etc.  www.sgmltools.org .  A sourceforge
project it seems.

I think if I was just starting out on a large documentation project
I would be inclined to use the SGML stuff, but YMMV.

HTH,
Jim

PS. Acronym alert!!
DHTML == Dynamic HTML
IE == Internet Exploder
AFAIK == as far as I know
SGML == Standardized General Markup Language, or something like that
YMMV == your mileage may vary
HTH == hope this helps

I'm sure most of you knew that.  :)

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