Re: toolchain alternatives
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:12, Mark Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 3, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Can someone with the knowledge please do a little ascii chart of the
> > alternative toolchains for producing output from Docbook (can limit to
> > XML)?
>
> This is an excellent question whose answer is long overdue.
If so, perhaps docbook and docbook-apps will appreciate a cross post of
just such a beast when done.
...
> If no one else does, I should be able to generate such a chart by the
> end of the week.
You legend! <warning em=severe>You will be worshipped.</>
> I will say that the xsl toolchains for producing ps/pdf are not yet
> mature, but will meet most needs. OTOH, you can always use the DSSSL
> stylesheets and the db2pdf, db2ps, etc., which are part of the
> docbook-utils package (but you have to explicitly provide xml.dcl as
> the default declaration).
>
> If you run unstable, you may find that the DSSSL print toolchain to be
> broken since one of the essential components (jadetex) appears to be
> uninstallable. [See bug #205922]
Thank you so much
Zenaan
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