_ From: Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 11:00 AM
> To: Kevin Dunn
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive
> 2019
>
> Kevin Dunn writes:
> > Thanks, Dave. You were helpfu
be about
docbook2pdf.
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From: Kevin Dunn
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021, 6:06 PM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive
2019
I spent t
: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive
2019
Kevin Dunn writes:
> Thanks, Dave. You were helpful to me 10 years ago. The XEP PDF output
> looks pretty nice with the default xsl stylesheet. There are some
> fancy things I achieved with dsssl and jadetex, a
My toolchain is older and even more esoteric. As a longtime TeX user
I ended up writing a grown-by-accretion Perl script to translate
whatever subset of docbook I happen to be using into TeX/ConTeXt.
I think that, since then, the ConTeXt people have added direct XML and
some DocBook support to
> I’ve been chatting, off and on, with Peter Flynn about working
> on a way to use TeX as a formatting back end in the modern era.
dblatex?
https://pypi.org/project/dblatex/
http://dblatex.sourceforge.net
In the period 2006 through 2016, we used dblatex with XeLaTeX a *lot*,
and found it
Kevin Dunn writes:
> Thanks, Dave. You were helpful to me 10 years ago. The XEP PDF output
> looks pretty nice with the default xsl stylesheet. There are some
> fancy things I achieved with dsssl and jadetex, and I'm not sure how
There’s a blast from the past!
I’ve been chatting, off and on,
On 11/06/2021 14:53, Kevin Dunn wrote:
Thanks, Dave. You were helpful to me 10 years ago. The XEP PDF output
looks pretty nice with the default xsl stylesheet. There are some fancy
things I achieved with dsssl and jadetex, and I'm not sure how easy they
would be with an xsl-fo toolchain:
1.
p. Are there other combinations for less than a thousand dollars?
Yes. Antenna house. Expensive, but (IMHO) the best today.
HTH
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> From: Dave Pawson
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:49:18 AM
> To: Kevin Dunn
> Cc: docbook-apps@list
ltproc-xep. Are there other combinations for less than a thousand dollars?
From: Dave Pawson
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:49:18 AM
To: Kevin Dunn
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive
201
My view, a 12 yo tool chain is plain OOD?
How much work did you put in to the stylesheets?
Is the up to date XSL too far from what you can manage with?
regards
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 03:46, Kevin Dunn wrote:
>
> For context, I have published two books marked up in Docbook xml, the first
> in
For context, I have published two books marked up in Docbook xml, the first in
2003, and the second in 2010. Both were converted to pdf using docbook2pdf on
linux boxes using customized dsssl stylesheets and several tex packages.
In anticipation of writing a third book, I installed texlive on a
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