On 23 December 2014 at 22:02, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm an old newbie, not really a programmer nor Linux expert that tries to
> be useful translating free software and free software manuals in my
> mother tongue (Italian).
>
> To this aim I have started the experiment to port all KiCad documentation,
> odt based, into a light markup to easy the translation effort through the
> use of po files.
> This is the result of this effort:
>
> https://github.com/ciampix/kicad-doc
>
> Now to the point. I would like to make asciidoc or asciidoctor to
> produce good pdf / epub results. I do not know, even superficially,
> docbook and xslt but I know that to this aim I have to start coding
> with this format and associated tools.

Sadly yes if you are using the FOP toolchain.

>
> Is there a way to do it easily? I mean I am not even able to produce a
> decent pdf cover without page number and possibly with the KiCad logo on
> top of it!

You could try producing the cover page in something like Libreoffice,
printing it to pdf and then I believe there are tools that can glue
PDFs together (maybe even directly in libreoffice, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software) so you can glue it
to the start of the PDF of the book contents you made conveniently
with a2x.

>
> With rest + Sphinx I am able to produce an almost perfect pdf, epub and
> html. I would like to do it with Asciidoc too, because I personally like
> much more asciidoc syntax than rest, this without having to study too
> much docbook and xslt transformations.
>
> Is it feasible? Is it better to buy a good docbook + xslt manual and
> start studing seriously?

See http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomizingPart.html (referenced by
Asciidoc FAQ #3), it covers book covers :)

Cheers
Lex
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