This looks interesting, Chris. Will it handle math, figures & tables nicely too, without fiddly manual intervention?
Lulu will combine a series of PDFs (or mixed PDF and MSWord) into a single PDF for paperback & ebook. If you can adjust page size and fixup pagination and running headers as per my sample, we're getting closer to eliminating MSWord, except for the title and imprint pages, contents, foreword & intro. Pagination: sequential page numbers would be nice, but we could maybe cheat with 1.1 1.2 1.3 ... 2.1 2.2 ...etc. I'm sure all this could be patched in manually into the XML, but I wouldn't know how. NB the PDF you've generated would be fine for a technical report in A4 or US Letter, but less good for a standard paperback format, for reasons I don't want to go into here -- or just yet. But I'm sure xml/dblatex is flexible enough to handle that. Ian On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Chris Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > The latest version of moinmoin supports docbook. I had not tried this > before, and got errors when doing so. It turned out that we needed to > install python-xml and reconfigure the wiki, but this is done now, and > docbook does work. > > I tried a quick test on Ric's updated At Play With J article. This > created an xml file, which I ran through dblatex. Somewhat to my > amazement, a nicely formatted PDF was generated, see > http://www.jsoftware.com/files/play203.pdf > > I am quite excited by this, as it looks like we can now convert wiki > pages to PDF. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
