On 14/11/2022 16:16, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
For some historical reasons (and maybe others, I don't know), the
tool chain used in the project where I'm in charge of the manual
uses a very outdated tool chain based on the following elements:
...
Currently, the PDF that's built from our DocBook set is, not
visually pleasant, to say the least.
The DocBook stylesheets only aspire to be a starting point. They manage
that fairly successfully.
My example of what can be done is the Markup UK proceedings [2], about
which I wrote a paper. [1]
There are few contributors to the documentation but ideally I'd like
something that works equally well on the three major platforms that
are Linux / Windows and macOS.
The DocBook stylesheets use Ant, which is cross-platform. The Markup UK
proceedings' customisation bundles the (free) fonts used in the PDF so
that the output is identical on Windows and Linux.
The XSL-FO does include some Antenna House Formatter [3] extensions, but
the DocBook stylesheets have had the option to generate Antenna House
Formatter extensions since I don't know when.
I hope that helps.
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgra...@antenna.co.jp
[1] https://markupuk.org/webhelp/index.html#ar10.html
[2] https://markupuk.org/pdf/Markup-UK-2021-proceedings.pdf
[3] https://www.antennahouse.com/formatter-v7
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