Bug#821119: [debian-refcard] change build mechanism to improve layout for cs, el and sk
Hi,
"W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> wrote:
> 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?
The intend to change cs, el and sk to use dblatex is a step in exactly
that direction then :-)
That would leave only ar, he, hi, ja, zh_CN and zh_TW for xmlroff.
And for that languages I am unable to build promising results with
dblatex, at least with the actual buildchain.
And more aggressive changes on the buildchain are probably out of my
skills.
However the Hebrew translator has already volunteered on working to
improve the build for he, so maybe there is a chance for some
improvement for he, if not for other languages as well.
Holger
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