Hi
First of all let me congratulate you on a great tool. The spell check has made
it
a lot more useful to me...
Anyway, I've been rendering the output of XXE with mixed results and have
encountered
a couple of issues that I would like to discuss here.
If you create a table the "cols" attribute on "tgroup" seems to default to
"__", if left
unchanged this makes things very interesting at the time of appliying a XSL
stylesheet.
(I don't know how other people create tables, but I just use the hotkeys and
create "entries"
and "rows" as I go along... maybe this is not the way to do it).
Anyway, back to rendering, I have found two very easy (and free) ways to render
the XXE
produced files :
A) The 1.48 Docbook XSLs works a lot better with the latest beta of Fop
(xml.apache.org/fop/)
It just becomes a matter of downloading the stylesheets & fop and typing
one command...
The main problem with this seems to be that Fop doesn't handle PDF margins
propperly.
B) There is a rather nasty but high quality output approach for Windows
(linux guys are lucky) 8-)
Use instant Saxon (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) with the stylesheets to
produce an HTML doc,
then convert the html doc to PDF with HtmlDoc
(http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/)
Sure it sounds bad, but for documentation the results are great, the only
thing to watch is that
listitem's with "para" elements inside generate "<li><p>" constructs and
the "<p>" (start and
end)has to be removed for optimum results... but again, maybe I'm doing
something wrong.
I hope this was useful to someone.
Cheers
JohnM
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