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Does O'Reilly still use DocBook? Is this the choice of the author?

I wasn't given an option when starting the project. They just set us up with Atlas and AsciiDoc.

What's DosBook?

Typo: should be DocBook. O'Reilly (used to?) use DocBook and now seems to prefer AsciiDoc (Atlas). Some info about it (and other useful style info for writing ebooks) is here: http://oreillymedia.github.io/production-resources/styleguid...

The open source AsciiDoc Python tools support translating it into fairly reasonable DocBook XML. I assume that's what O'Reilly's doing behind the scenes with Atlas.

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