Zam, What you might be looking for is xmlto. It's a frontend for an XSL toolchain, notably the DocBook one. I don't recommend trying to install a2x just to run the DocBook toolchain as it a) wasn't designed to be installed standalone and b) is quite old and better alternatives likely exist for that purpose anyway.
We really can't do anything about the complexity of DocBook itself. It has never really had a very friendly toolchain wrapper. Most people who use DocBook already have some sort of toolchain set up in house and are just building on that foundation year after year. If you search, you might be able to find some better alternatives to xmlto. (Another is publican by Red Hat https://sourceware.org/publican/en-US/index.html) A while ago, I made a DocBook toolchain wrapper named fopub ( https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub). It works reasonably well, but it's only configured to use Apache FOP, not dblatex. The later could be added, but it would likely rely on a working dblatex installation. I'm also not maintaining that project anymore, so don't expect any improvements from me. Best Regards, -Dan -- Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/CAKeHnO74DPRjeuHQMNSvPxdgGdZ84GzamXDUvkzoy9_7RzQw-g%40mail.gmail.com.
