On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote:
The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older
versions did not have all the features we needed for PDFs. Table of
contents and some other things, as I recall. We now have a port of the
latest version of dblatex, but it dies mysteriously and needs more
investigation.
I don't recall exactly how we do the table of contents, but as I recall
it's literally a one liner. For our grammars, we additionally have a
Table of tables, table of figures, and for one document a Table of
equations. Also a glossary, bibliography (for which we use bibtex data
files, together with the Biber program, which has advantages over the
older bibtex program), and an index. The glossary and index require the
appropriate XML elements, and of course the biblio requires the .bib
files, but otherwise it's all automagic.
Most of the customization we've had to do has been on the LaTeX side,
for which we have two style sheets--one for producing PDFs for use
on-line, the other for camera-ready copy for the print publisher.
Does your system die during the dblatex phase, or the LaTeX phase? We
hardly ever see a failure in the dblatex phase, unless there's actually
an error in the DocBook XML.
--
Mike Maxwell
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"I cannot believe that our existence in this universe
is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an
incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our
involvement is too intimate. The physical species
Homo may count for nothing, but the existence of
mind in some organism on some planet in the universe
is surely a fact of fundamental significance. Through
conscious beings the universe has generated
self-awareness." --Paul Davies
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