Joel de Guzman wrote: > Hi, > > Did we ever considered generating LaTex from DocBook instead of > PDF through FOP? http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ seems to be a nice > solution to our current difficulties with FOP. dblatex — converts > DocBook to LaTeX, DVI, PostScript, and PDF. It is actively maintained, > unlike FOP which seems to be dead. > > Here are some samples: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/examples.html
Looks interesting, the ability to embed MathML and get pretty equations out would be really interesting! You're right about FOP: it's simply not up to the job. I've tried a command line compatible drop in replacement called XEP (http://www.renderx.com/) and it actually works really well - in the sense that everything that should work, just plain does the right thing, straight out the box. Unfortunately it's a commercial product, and although there is a free version it injects some banner advertising along the bottom of each page. It's still better than FOP even with the adverts, but I'll try and give this dblatex a go. I recon if it can do a good job of the math-toolkit docs then it'll handle almost anything :-) Most of my remaining niggles at present concern our Jamfiles, and the Docbook->FO translation phase: * pdf's really should be put in a "pdf" subdir just like the html is (they would find any images then too!) * If you have an existing .fo file the XML->FO translation always fails, could be fixed by always deleting any existing fo file before doing the translation. * Syntax highlighting and indentation of code doesn't work: needs a custom XSL layer. * Monospaced output should probably be in a smaller font: needs a custom XSL layer again :-( * Hyperlinks aren't colored: yep custom XSL again I suspect! If I get any joy with dblatex I'll let you know, John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
