On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:43, Kevin Page wrote: > Hi, > > I've used lyx previously (very successfully, I may add - thanks!) in > the past for creating LaTeX based output. I'm writing my thesis, and > would ideally like the base document to use DocBook.
Good. :-) > I've have a brief experiment with the DocBook book class, though > output was not ideal. I've looked at the db4lyx page and browsed the > mailing list archives, but I still have a few questions remaining > about DocBook features in 1.2.0 (which various places seem to suggest > has better DocBook support). The code was cleaned so it should be easier to fix if something is broken. > Any help, thoughts, or experiences are welcome. In particular, I'm > interested in how successful I'll be with: > > - Multi chapter, section, sub section support. This seems to be in > there and working fine (though my output wasn't aligned perfectly) I have fixed that in 1.3.0cvs > - table of contents (seems to be working, though I guess this is > directly constructed by the docbook toolset) You are right. > - tables (again, seems to be good for simple tables) And also for more than simple tables. ;-) > - Embedded figures and diagrams, with labels that can be referenced > (as numbers) Cann't they already? > - bibliography and references. Preferably with a separate bibliography > file, as with BibTeX database. Configurable style for bibliography > output. I need to work this more since, as an example, pybibliographer also exports docbook. > - XML DocBook. The SGML output seems to be pretty well formed - it is > also XML compliant now? No, because of that, if is SGML it cann't be XML (think for example about the empty tags <toc> for sgml and <toc/> for xml. The idea is to add a new xml export option, as you can guess most of the changes are trivial. > As I said above, I've had a quick experiment with the DocBook book > class in 1.2.0, and the PS output was, shall we say, not ideal. I > tried to throw the SGML export at some docbook tools (I'm using RedHat > 7.3 with its docbook packages installed), but they didn't like it. I'm > unsure as to whether this is a problem with the tool chain. Send me an example file, please. > I'm open to any experiences - it may be that I'm best sticking with > plain lyx/LaTeX, despite the obvious portability advantages of > DocBook. (or maybe I should just get down to editing raw DocBook?!) It depends, what do you want/need? If we now that maybe we can point you to the different solutions... Don't be afraid to ask, we don't bite (well usually ;-). > Regards, > > kev -- Jos� Ab�lio
