Re: [docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-10 Thread Michael Maxwell
Probably not the solution you're looking for, but we have used dblatex http://dblatex.sourceforge.net (not to be confused with the older db2latex). For our use case--grammars of foreign languages, with mixed languages and scripts (Arabic, Bengali, Thaana)--it was probably the only solution.

Re: [docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-10 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi. Randall: > I currently have a java/maven-based AsciiDoc -> DocBook -> FOP -> PDF > chain within the docbkx-maven-plugin, but would like any suggestions > that appear to be better maintained and are cross platform. We are using DAPS (https://github.com/opensuse/daps). It's essentially using

Re: [docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 09.11.21 22:14, Randall Wood wrote: This is the first tool I tried, it is missing a lot of formatting capabilities that FOP and Latex have, but with FOP appearing to be all but abandoned (and me having some problems with it), I’m looking at a replacement for it. FOP looks reasonably

Re: [docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-09 Thread Randall Wood
> On Nov 9, 2021, at 09:57, Eric Streit wrote: > > hi > > yes, it was the idea. > > https://karinavarela.me/2020/05/06/converting-asciidoc-to-markdown/ This looses a lot as Markdown does not include a number of features of asciidoc (like admonitions). > Taking a look at it, there is also

[docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-09 Thread Randall Wood
I am working on an AsciiDoc -> DocBook -> PDF toolchain for an open source project (so all tooling must be freely available) because the direct AsciiDoc -> PDF toolchain is inadequate for our purposes. I currently have a java/maven-based AsciiDoc -> DocBook -> FOP -> PDF chain within the