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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
Except for the image scaling, it is my experience, that most issues with xmlminds foconverter can be worked out, using a customised stylesheet. But be aware that the license of the personal version prevents you from integrating the the tool in your own tool chain. You may only use the jar file from the enclosed shell scripts. However of all the solutions proposed, I find Steves DocBook to WordML (and back) the most elegant, and the best for our purpose. Dave Pawson mentioned at similar approach for OpenOffice some time ago, and invited people to participate, but i don't remember seeing any response to his request. There is also the DocBook-OO conversion stylesheets included in OpenOffice, but when I last tried them, they seemed to be in an very early alpha stage. I was present, when Jean Paoli presented Office 2003 to a exited group of XML people at XML 2002. As usual, the final product did not work as described, and what we ended up with is a very strange format XML format, and although talking to a Micosoft patenting lawyer, I have still not figured out if we can use the schema legally in non MS-tools. But as described in Even Lenzs article in http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/09/07/XMLnword2003.html Word do have a very nice facility called formatting restriction, which currently makes Word a good choice as a "(MS)DocBook" editor - when combining Word with Steves stylesheets. Unfortunately I am a Linux geek. Regards, Jens On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jacques wrote: > Le jeudi 30 septembre 2004, Jens Stavnstrup disait : > > >You can look at > > > > http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/ > > > >That works reasonably well. > > I agree with that... but. > > I used XFC (which is available in xmlmind website), and my left marging > was null. After sending a mail in the XFC mailing list, it appears that > XFC doesn't know how to deal with (2.5cm - 0pc) expression. But the xslt > which come with XFC have been patched to work. > > So the solution (I have just try and it works perfectly) it to use the > xslt available with XFC. In fact in the custom-layer (if you use one) > replace <xsl:import "href://path/to/docbook/fo/xsl/files"> with > <xsl:import "href://path/to/xfc/docbook/fo/xsl/files"> > > There is still a problem, the TOC doesn't have the page numbers (they > are all to 0). > > Hope this help > > Jacques > -- > BOY SCOUT : un enfant habillé comme un couillon, commandé par un couillon habillé comme un enfant. > P. Desproges > >
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