Thanks, Robert! This is very very helpful. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Soulliere, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane, > > > > As Yamil explains it is a multistep process using xsltproc and fop to get > the PDF output. The current documentation does not use a2x for the PDF > content. > > There is an old repository of stylesheets here: > > > > https://github.com/rsoulliere/Evergreen_Documentation_Tools/tree/master/stylesheets/evergreen_docbook_files > > > > There is some old but good documentation on customizing the output of the > documentation: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomizingPart.html > > > > One key tool you will need to install is FOP as explained in this chapter: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/InstallingAnFO.html > > n Not sure if this is still useful since it has been a long time since I > have installed it on a server. > > > > Regards, > > Robert > > > > > > From: OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Yamil Suarez > Sent: December-01-16 3:25 PM > To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] How do you make a2x PDF output > stylish? > > > > Jane, > > > > As far as I know, the folks that set up the documentation server also > created some templates that at some point in the conversion process get > called when the HTML and PDF versions are created. > > > > Additionally, the complete process behinds the scenes is to take the > AsciiDoc and convert it to DocBook XML. Then the DocBook XML is combined > with the aforementioned header/footer templates created by the EG community. > > > > Somewhere I have a link to a Github page with copies of older versions of > those templates. Let em know if you want to look at them, but remember they > are in DocBook format. > > > > Later, > > Yamil > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------- > > > > Yamil Suarez, MCS > > Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development > > > > Stan Getz Library > > Berklee College of Music > > 1140 Boylston St > > Boston, MA 02215 > > > > [email protected] > > 617-747-2617 > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Rogan Hamby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you tried the --fop parameter? > > > > warning: I am not terribly familiar a2x but use it for basic documents and > use that to generate the PDF > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jane Sandberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > The official docs has a really lovely PDF version with Evergreen > colors and a footer that asks folks to report doc bugs in launchpad. > [1] > > However, when I run the a2x command, I just get the run-of-the-mill > dblatex style. [2, 3] > > How can I get the lovely Evergreen formatting? Is that defined in a > file somewhere? Or are there more arguments I should be passing to > the a2x command? > > Thanks for your help! > > -Jane > > > [1] http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.11/Evergreen_Documentation.pdf > [2] > http://docs-testing.evergreen-ils.org/docs/reorg/staffclient_sysadmin/Evergreen_Documentation.pdf > [3] The command I'm running: a2x --verbose --format pdf -d book > --destination-dir destination root.txt > > -- > Jane Sandberg > Electronic Resources Librarian > Linn-Benton Community College > [email protected] / 541-917-4655 > Pronouns: she/her/hers or they/them/theirs > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > > > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Rogan R. Hamby, Data and Project Analyst > > Equinox - Open Your Library > > [email protected] > > 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > > > > > ________________________________ > > This E-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended > only for the individual or entity named in the message. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or the agent responsible > to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication > is prohibited. If this communication was received in error, please > notify the sender by reply E-mail immediately, and delete and destroy > the original message. > > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation >
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