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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML->PDF
Rick Bronson writes: > My current tool set is: > > debian potato, Docbook 4.1, dsssl-1.73, jadetex 3.11-1, Jade version "1.2.1", > SP version "1.3.4" > Anyone have any opinions on this? JadeTeX 3.11 is broken for me, but no one responds to the bug reports at SourceForge. 3.10 works better. The 1.73 style sheets are not usable for print output that contains variablelists, because of a bug. This is unfortunate, because that release contains a few other improvements for print output. I don't know about the Jade vs OpenJade situation, but OpenJade works for me. I'm currently in the process of trying to beat a toolchain approximately equal to yours into formatting about 1500 pages of documentation into acceptable PDF output. Problems are tables, various horizontal and vertical spacing issues, and breaking of extremely long file and url strings. If you're using the indexing functionality you need a lot of fixes. If you're using bibliographies and/or refentries mixed with regular sectioned content you might get broken bookmarks. I encountered a good load of problems that were rather easy to fix, which indicates to me that this tool chain isn't widely used for "serious" applications. I've also encountered various TeX-related problems, such as pdfTeX not accepting png images with some weird error message (and I haven't found a way to make pdf images, so I'm running "imageless"), "font substitutions" that I have no clue about, and formatting reference pages into TeX messes up the linking completely. So, er, my opinion is that it can be made to work, but if you're writing more than an article then it's a bit of an effort. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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