docbook: xml / xsl to pdf or ps or tex
Subject:
Re: xml / xsl to pdf or ps or tex
From:
Alasdair Hatfield ####@####.####
Date:
23 Jul 2003 10:48:35 -0000
Message-Id: <200307230945.h6N9jof32409@foureyes.embedded-designs.co.uk>
This works well.
Thanks for the help.
Just one thing - I am using <programlisting> which db2latex translates to
<Verbatim>. dvips, which I use to get to .ps and then (via pstopdf) to .pdf,
gets upset by this. Any experience of this and other approaches?
Thanks
Alasdair
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:43, you wrote:
> Alasdair Hatfield wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience of getting good quality results going from
> > xml to printable formats? I've picked up that .fo is a possible route but
> > results
>
> ...
>
> > If anyone has experience of any of these, and or other formats, I'd be
> > interested to learn how they have done it.
>
> I get _very_ good results (PDF) using the XSL stylesheets from the
> DocBook2LaTeX project (http://db2latex.sf.net). We are currently working on
> a large book (about 900+ pages) written in DocBook XML and generate PDF
> using db2latex.
> Of course not all DocBook tags are supported yet, but the developers are
> usually very fast in implementing a wanted feature if they get emailed. If
> one has good knowledge of LaTeX one can easily adapt/enhance/extend the
> stylesheets in a custom layer for missing tags, etc.
>
> Use the CVS version and not the 'official' end-user release!
>
> Michael
