On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:12, Mark Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday, December 3, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Can someone with the knowledge please do a little ascii chart of the > > alternative toolchains for producing output from Docbook (can limit to > > XML)? > > This is an excellent question whose answer is long overdue.
If so, perhaps docbook and docbook-apps will appreciate a cross post of just such a beast when done. ... > If no one else does, I should be able to generate such a chart by the > end of the week. You legend! <warning em=severe>You will be worshipped.</> > I will say that the xsl toolchains for producing ps/pdf are not yet > mature, but will meet most needs. OTOH, you can always use the DSSSL > stylesheets and the db2pdf, db2ps, etc., which are part of the > docbook-utils package (but you have to explicitly provide xml.dcl as > the default declaration). > > If you run unstable, you may find that the DSSSL print toolchain to be > broken since one of the essential components (jadetex) appears to be > uninstallable. [See bug #205922] Thank you so much Zenaan -- Debian Enterprise: A Custom Debian Distribution: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/ * PGP Key: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

