I'm just in the middle of revisiting maven. Our team had a bad experience when we last looked at this, as it was during the period when maven was rearchitecting from 1.x to 2.x, so a lot of the dependencies we needed hadn't been moved across to the new repositories. However, I have the time to reconsider now.
I am interested in using maven and either LaTeX or DocBook for creating documentation, and I was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share, project/module structure, good plugins to use, etc...
Many thanks :-)
Edit:
Just to clarify, I was looking to write a technical article/book, and my desired artifact would probably be a PDF.
I recently implemented the project documentation for my maven multi-module project using docbook and the docbkx plugin for maven. I now have it automatically generating html and pdf files every time I build the project site. I think docbkx really rocks, so I would suggest you use that.
Its true -you can create a very nice site just using the maven site and doxia plugins. In fact I'm using those two to generate my project site, But doxia support for docbook is very limited and doesn't let you modularize documentation, including parts of documents in a main document, for instance. So for the big reference-manuals I'm using docbkx.
If you want to take a peek, my project is here. You can actually download the source and see the nitty gritty of it. And, of course, if you have any question regarding this setup, i'll be more than glad to help.
Cheers Carlos