XForms: XML Powered Web Forms

Chapter . Colophon

This book was authored in LATEX on the Emacspeak^[1] audio desktop with Emacs package AucTeX^[2] providing authoring support. At a time when most of the attention around Open Source Software is focused on the operating system, I would like to draw readers’ attention to the wonderful array of high-quality open source authoring and document preparation tools created over the last 25 years by the LATEX community.

All figures in this book were drawn using package pstricks; the declarative markup enabled me to draw these diagrams reliably without having to look at the final output. XML examples were created as stand-alone XML files and processed using packages xmlindent^[3] and xmllint^[4] before being converted to LATEX. The highlevel ...