Re: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread maxwell
On 11/24/2010 09:34 AM, maxwell wrote: > I haven't done a *comparison*, but we routinely use dblatex + XeTeX (= a > Unicode-aware version of LaTeX) to produce multi-lingual PDF documents. > We chose this route because it wasn't clear that the FOP route would > deal well with some of the scripts w

Re: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Ruediger Landmann
On 11/24/2010 09:34 AM, maxwell wrote: I haven't done a *comparison*, but we routinely use dblatex + XeTeX (= a Unicode-aware version of LaTeX) to produce multi-lingual PDF documents. We chose this route because it wasn't clear that the FOP route would deal well with some of the scripts we neede

Re: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Ruediger Landmann
On 11/20/2010 11:18 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: The PLplot project has been using DocBook XML for years, but our choice of backend tools was made a decade ago so presumably some of those backend tools have been superseded by better choices now. Thus, I would appreciate your recommendations concerni

RE: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread maxwell
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:06:42 -0800 (PST), "Alan W. Irwin" wrote: > On 2010-11-23 22:55+0100 Mauritz Jeanson wrote: > >> dblatex can produce DVI: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/. > > That sounds like a most interesting approach since it transforms to > latex. The dvi, PostScript and PDF results

RE: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-11-23 22:55+0100 Mauritz Jeanson wrote: dblatex can produce DVI: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/. That sounds like a most interesting approach since it transforms to latex. The dvi, PostScript and PDF results are then produced from that latex source using native latex, dvips, etc. too

RE: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: Alan W. Irwin | | > I think you should look into XSL. And you already know about | > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html, judging by | the link on | > http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php, so there | is no need for me | > to expan

RE: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-11-23 19:34+0100 Mauritz Jeanson wrote: | -Original Message- | From: Alan W. Irwin | | Our man pages are generated with a home-brew perl script. That script | uses XML::DOM::Parser to parse the combination of plplotdoc.xml (The | core file where our entities are defined) and

RE: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linux backend tools for DocBook

2010-11-23 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: Alan W. Irwin | | Our man pages are generated with a home-brew perl script. That script | uses XML::DOM::Parser to parse the combination of plplotdoc.xml (The | core file where our entities are defined) and api.xml (the subset of | our DocBook source fi