From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-13T04:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: DocBook to PDF

Hi --

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:

> Keith Fahlgren wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Does this need to be a pure Ruby solution? If not, I'd suggest using (or 
>> adapting) the standard DocBook stylesheets 
>> (http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets), and using
>> (perhaps via the Ruby libxslt bindings) those to generate XSL-FO, which you 
>> can
>> then feed into FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) or the FO formatter
>> of your choice.
>
> That sounds tedious and error-prone to me -- I don't normally use any
> of this stuff. And I don't even know what FO is.

There's a bit of setup involved, but I've got scripts for saxon (XSLT
parser) and FOP, and it's all pretty streamlined.  I've always tried
to bundle as much of this stuff as possible into a single directory;
and though I haven't upgraded it lately, I can share it as a bundle if
needed.


David

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David A. Black
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