I don't mind paying for software but I can't afford the thousands
that XEP costs, for exmaple.
I'm really wondering what paths exist these days for turning DocBook
into something that you can actually send to a book publisher (which
seems to mean PDF, and that's certainly my preference, but I'm
On 22.3.2012 11:11, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I don't mind paying for software but I can't afford the thousands
that XEP costs, for exmaple.
According to http://www.renderx.com/download/shop.html XEP costs 360 USD
which is not free, but far from thousands. Antenna House is for similar
price if
I'm not trying to convince you that DocBook Friends are perfect, but
really, you are able to prepare books with it! I'm personally quite
happy with fop xsltproc. It requires some knowledge, but works
pretty well.
--
Regards / Pozdrawiam
Tomek Kaczanowski
http://practicalunittesting.com
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:11:37 -0700, Robin Lee Powell
rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote:
- dblatex is hugely brittle (trust me on this)
I guess I don't trust you on this. We've been using dblatex for several
years now on book-length grammars, with excellent results for articles,
reports, and
advantage of some of DocBook's more powerful features- auto-TOCs,
labeling, indices, etc.
Good luck.
jz
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From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:12 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:48:55AM -0400, maxwell wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:11:37 -0700, Robin Lee Powell
rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote:
- dblatex is hugely brittle (trust me on this)
I guess I don't trust you on this.
*chuckle* *That* was unexpected (not). :D
We've been using
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:57:18PM +, Jason Zech wrote:
Hi Robin,
I've had a lot of success with PrinceXML
(http://www.princexml.com/) as a DocBook to PDF solution. Like
Antenna House (which I haven't used), it allows you to control
appearance via fairly robust CSS stylesheets. It's
capabilities
they have: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom/
-Original Message-
From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:39 PM
To: Jason Zech
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths that aren't hugely expensive?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:57:18PM +, Jason Zech wrote:
Hi Robin,
I've had a lot of success with PrinceXML
(http://www.princexml.com/) as a DocBook to PDF solution
-I don't understand what you mean by breakup.
With breakup i mean hyphenation. Sorry bout my worse english. :)
- This works when I try it. Does your XML file declare the xl namespace?
It works in PDF and HTML Help but in Java Help they don't work.
- the formatting with CSS doesn't work. Is
At 21:12 14/10/2002, Jeff Beal wrote:
(Does anyone have a tutorial on
navigating the plethora of DocBook tutorials yet?)
Good point Jeff.
they are getting rather profuse and widespread.
Suggestions how to join/link/merge or otherwise
make them more cohesive?
regards DaveP
* Jeff Beal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15 Oct, 2002 wrote:
1) Set up a section on the Wiki and request that anyone who wants to write
a tutorial write it as part of the Wiki
2) Set up a public CVS project for a massively collaborative tutorial
written in DocBook
To be honest I find the Wiki hard
: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook - pdf
I'm using Adobe Acrobat 5 to import web pages and was wondering if anyone
was putting their docbook's into pdf's. I did that and it looks great, but
have a few questions.
The 'next' and 'prev' page links that are at the bottom of a page are
usually at the very top
I'm using Adobe Acrobat 5 to import web pages and was wondering if anyone
was putting their docbook's into pdf's. I did that and it looks great, but
have a few questions.
The 'next' and 'prev' page links that are at the bottom of a page are
usually at the very top of an entire new page which
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