Re: [docbook-apps] Language support in XSL-FO Stylesheets

2022-06-23 Thread Dave Pawson
Frank, is your solution meeting all your needs (with the corrections you've made?) If so, perhaps put in a change request to docbook? regards On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 15:07, Frank Steimke wrote: > > Dear List Members, > > i had already sent this to the docbook List, but probably this list >

Re: [docbook-apps] Language support in XSL-FO Stylesheets

2022-06-23 Thread Mike Maxwell
This is probably not relevant to your cases, but we typeset and published (through Mouton) a number of grammars ten or so years ago, where the languages being described had unusual scripts: Western Panjabi (Nasta'liq variety of Arabic script, hence right-to-left), Bangla (Bengali script), and

Re: [docbook-apps] Language support in XSL-FO Stylesheets

2022-06-23 Thread M. Downing Roberts
Hi Frank, I can't add much except to say that I also hit a wall trying to generate a bilingual book (English and Japanese), and the index in particular was very difficult. I got some help from Bob Stayton, but the only solution was a hack to generate the index using another application that I

[docbook-apps] Language support in XSL-FO Stylesheets

2022-06-23 Thread Frank Steimke
Dear List Members, i had already sent this to the docbook List, but probably this list docbook-apps fits better. I am using DocBook for a bi-lingual book. Most of the content is written in english, but parts are written in the german language. PDF is produced with XSL Stylesheets 1.79.2