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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trying to find a DocBook solution that simply works
I am part of a project where were are able to start writing perhaps 200 pages of documentation. We were interested in using DocBook because it seemed like an up and coming standard that could deliver the document in several formats. We were considering using the DocBook XML definition. I have spent the last 2-3 days trying to find a set of DocBook apps on Linux that are robust and can generate HTML, PDF and perhaps RTF. I've been working from a Debian Linux distribution and trying packages like jade, openjade, sgmltools-lite, libxalan2-java, lib-fop-java, and cygnus-stylesheet. I haven't been able to find a combination of tools that is capable of processing the online copy of DocBook The Definitive Guide (from SourceForge) or all the examples on the version 0.0.1 CD that comes with DocBook The Definitive Guide. The available applications don't appear to be that mature. I could only find minimal documentation for each tools, and no tools worked on all the examples. At this point, I am about to recommend using something other than DocBook, and this isn't the recommendation I expected to be making. Is there a set of DocBook applications that can take a validated DocBook or DocBook XML file and simply and reliably make HTML, PDF and RTF? Tom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Epperly Center for Applied Scientific Computing Phone: 925-424-3159 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fax: 925-424-2477 L-661, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551 Email: tepperly@llnl.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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