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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source DocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]
> That's all I need to know really: If I were to make the jump to XML > and go with these XML tools, I just want assurance that I can get at > least the same results that I now get with DSSSL and OpenJade. but I dont know what you are doing with DSSSL... > Yes. What I mean is, jadetex mungs things which change the meaning of > the text and might look amateurish to someone buying a book. eh??? what do you refer to? there are some residual problems with things like "--", for which you need a patched Jade, but what else? > Now do understand that for our internal purposes, Jadetex does a great > job, but when I export these docs, I'm getting complaints and this is which complainst? please note that bad implementation of widows and orphans in section titles isnt "munging", its just a bug > document. Ideally, I'd want to take any arbitrary Linux doc from > linuxdoc.org and run it through a process that prints as nicely as > an IBM Redbook. no, sorry, thats still not a specification. i dont know what ared book is, and i dont know what designs it can encompass > Is it fair to say, for our purposes of documenting open source > software, FOP is already a viable (TeX-free?) alternative to > OpenJade/jadetex for rendering DocBook to the various formats? nearly; its not as good as jadetex yet (cant do hyphenation!), but I'd look again in 3-4 months. > S> I typeset my daughters primary school newsletter using TeX, > S> from an XML master file. I translate it to TeX using XSL. is > S> that commercial? > > Primary school parents can get pretty vicious! luckily the other parents have not a clue how i do it sebastian
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