On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Lex Trotman wrote:
The formatting of the PDF is a function of the toolchain, not asciidoc.
I couldn't see a setting for dblatex to generate two columns.
The FOP toolchain can create two column see
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html#TwoColumn. Those
xsltproc options can of course be passed through a2x.
Ah, fop, we meet again. :)
For reference:
a2x -fpdf -darticle --fop --xsltproc-opts='--stringparam column.count.body 2'
article.txt
The output is two columns, but two columns for everything. For
instance, the title and author are centered over the left column, not on
the page. Yes, that's what the parameter says, but not quite what is
needed.
Usenix has a sample paper:
http://www.usenix.org/events/samples/paper.pdf
Footnotes are also a problem, with the text overlaying them. Probably
this can all be fixed with XSL stylesheets. Maybe there are some that
already exist for this. I'll do some searching.
In the meantime, other options are still welcome.
Thanks!
On 18 January 2016 at 07:31, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
My technical paper written with Asciidoc was accepted for a seminar.
However, they insist that the final version of the PDF must be published in
a two-column layout like that used by Usenix:
https://www.usenix.org/conferences/author-resources/paper-templates
The paper was written with Asciidoc 8.6.9 on FreeBSD.
It never occurred to me to try multi-column text before, and searching on
"two columns" only found information about columns in tables.
It would be great if that LaTex style file could be used directly with
dblatex, but I doubt it will be that easy. It would not have to be dblatex,
of course.
Any suggestions on getting that style of PDF output from Asciidoc?
Thanks!
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