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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Small questions about what tools to use
El Viernes, 4 de Noviembre de 2005 04:11, Michael Smith escribió: > I agree that the font size of headings in default DocBook XSL is too big. > Way too big. But it is configurable. As an example, I've pasted in > a copy of a customization layer I use for generating FO output. Thanks for the tip. :) I will try it. > There is also an XSL-based alternative to using the DocBook FO > stylesheets -- dblatex: > > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ > > You might also try that. Yes, searching in the list archives, I've read good comments, and the results in the website are very good. Yesterday I tried two or three times with that document I authored months ago, but without luck. I will investigate more, because the results seem very good. > > And now I want to start a new document, and I have some doubts about what > > tools to use: > > > > * Will Jade work with Docbook 5.0? I tried with defguide5 (is the only > > DB5 document I have), and it didn't, so I don't know if start with 4.x, > > or with the 5.0 beta. > > DocBook 5 is namespaced. Jade is an SGML tool. I don't know if it > or other SGML tools will work with namespaced content. If I understood correctly, XML is a subset of SGML, so I hope it will work if docbook is the default namespace. I did some tests with a trivial document, and it doesn't works, though. :-( > > * Should I remain with DSSSL/Jade, or switch to XSL, and just customize > > the stylesheets until I get a result which is near to what I like? > > For starting new projects, I would personally not recommend > investing time in using the DSSSL/Jade toolchain. For one thing, > it is not really being actively maintained. All work on new > features is going into the XSL toolchain. > > Really, the current problems with the XSL toolchain are due to > limitations in the open-source XSL-FO processors (FOP, Passivetex, > others) -- not due to limitations in the FO stylesheets. There are > non-free-software alternatives (XEP, Antenna House XSL Formatter) > that produce PDF output that is better than anything that can be > gnerated using the DocBook DSSSL toolchain. Well, that's a pity, because my I prefer free software, and my laptop's platform is linux on powerpc, so I'm part of my time stuck with free software only. :-) But thanks, because it's good to know where the problem is, or which alternatives there are. > --Mike > >(...) Thanks again for the snippet and the answers. Regards. -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) - GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://darkshines.net/ - Jabber ID: suy@bulmalug.net
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