[XeTeX] Making nice tables

[Mike Maxwell]

Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2007/11/22, Mike Maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>:
>> I ran across a program (dblatex) that converts DocBook XML into
>> Latex.
> 
> You should consider using ConTeXt instead of LaTeX.

One of the considerations is that eventually, I want to be able to use
some of the packages for doing linguistic papers (typesetting
phonological rules, etc.).  LaTeX seems to have good support for that;
I'm not sure about ConTeXt; I haven't found any linguistic packages yet
(it's hard to google this, because 'context' is a very common linguistic
term...).

> The last versions have very good support for XeTeX and luatex and
> ConTeXt can do XML.

When people say "ConTeXt can do XML", what exactly do they mean?  There
was (and maybe still is--it doesn't seem very active) a Sourceforge
project called dbcontext, designed to convert DocBook into ConTeXt.  The
fact that there was such a project seems to imply the conversion is
non-trivial.  Or am I missing something?
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	Mike Maxwell
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	 Before the dark times.  Before the Americans."
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