On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:15 AM, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2012 13:22:20 Vincent de Lau wrote: >> > I am interested in helping the situation and have some good experience >> > in DocBook 5 using the xsltproc/fop tool chain in my own project for >> > html and pdf output. I also have contributed to the DocBook work flow >> > for html, pdf, and man page generation for the open source project BRL- >> > CAD (http://brlcad.org). >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> Last week I was also looking at the PDF thing, because of a note in the >> STATUS file. As an exercise to myself I was planning on using FOP to >> generate PDF. That would require XSLT templates to be created to convert >> the docs into XSL FO. > > It would be nice. I've tried that 10 years ago, but apache fop didn't have the > necessary features back then (I'm not up-to-date about them now). As a > consequence, Joshua built the latex solution.
If my assumptions are correct (including that the source docs are in project-specific xml), then maybe, using current apache source docs xml, which seem to produce great html with the current stylesheets, it's worth looking into a Pandoc solution: # the existing flow, makes excellent html IMHO apache-doc.xml => apache-doc.html # NEW flow Pandoc <= apache-doc.html => apache-doc.tex # existing flow pdflatex apache-doc.tex => apache-doc. It would replace the current xml => latex stylesheets and it may result in a better translation. Best, -Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
