Bug#821119: [debian-refcard] change build mechanism to improve layout for cs, el and sk
On 2016-04-15 20:10, Holger Wansing wrote:
> When building the pdfs with
> make USE_DBLATEX=2 refcard-XX-a4.pdf
> (this means using dblatex instead of xmlroff) I get a pdf with a correct
> copyright notice, coloured URLs and better usage of the available space
Note, that when I started the refcard, I tried four different
toolchains: dblatex, docbook2latex(?), fop, and xmlroff. I don't
remember now, but neither docbook2latex nor fop did work well
for this usecase. Depending on the language I had acceptable
results with dblatex or xmlroff. Unfortunately, both dblatex
and xmlroff are more or less "one person projects". While
xmlroff had no further development since many years, dblatex is
alive and kicking, integrating patches from others and getting
better with every release.
Maybe it is time to focus on only one tool, dblatex, and fix
remaining issues with it?
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