From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T14:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Cookbook - follow on, book-related question

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:49 +0900, Keith Fahlgren wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> > >> Yeah, but pure FO just doesn't hack the book stuff (and indexing is a
> > >>  serious, serious hack... :)
> > >>
> > >> One day it'll happen, and we'll try our best to be there.
> > >
> > > I'll strongly disagree with this. Pure FO is more than ready to handle 
> > > complex technical books.
> > 
> > Do you know which FO formatter they use?
> 
> We use AntennaHouse. It's commerical, but all of the others don't
> implement enough of the FO spec(s) to really give you all of the tools
> at your disposal.

I've been using Altsoft's Xml2PDF.  The price is reasonable, it's fast,
and it's easy to run it from the command line.  

Yours,

Tom