Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: generate postscript from docbook xml

[Ian Castle <ian.castle@looksystems.co.uk>]

Mix and match is fine.

I use DSSSL for PDF/Postscript

XSL for man pages, htmlhelp.

I use a makefile to wrap the commands up..

..so make target.pdf would invoke the DSSSL toolchain,
make target.1 (for a manual page) would invoke the XSLT toolchain.

After an small amount of stylesheet customisation I don't tend to need
to change things that much... So the system is fine to push out to the
"authors"... They just mark up XML with DocBook and type "make"... and
they get whatever they need.


On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 08:44, Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> Ian,
> I'm also using openjade, but it depends which stylesheets Massimiliano
> wants to use. With openjade he must use dsssl stylesheets...
> 
> I thought he was looking for a tool to be used with xsl stylesheets... 
> 
> Massimiliano, I agree with Ian: if you plan to use dsssl stylesheets,
> it would be better to download openjade.
> 
> Gius_.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 09:24, Ian Castle wrote:
> > Better still, you can use openjade 1.3.1 and jadetex 3.12 for generally
> > excellent quality (certainly good enough for real books).
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjade
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/jadetex
> > 
> > You will also need DSSSL stylesheets.
> > 
> > To process an XML file you will need the "xml.dcl" file (included in
> > openjade release).
> > 
> > openjade -v -t tex -V tex-backend -d file.dsl#print
> > /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl file.xml
> > 
> > The openjade 1.3.1 distribution contains a reasonably complex document
> > called "releasenotes.xml", together with an example stylesheet called
> > releasenotes.dsl and a Makefile that shows you how to convert the xml to
> > PDF. These are in the "docsrc" directory.
> > 
> > You can look at the results by examining "releasenotes.pdf" on the
> > openjade project page "files" section.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 08:04, Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> > > You can use either passiveTex or Apache Fop.
> > > Apache Fop is still immature, so the quality is not excellent...
> > > 
> > > You can download passiveTex at
> > > http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=passiveTex
> > > 
> > > or if you prefer you can download Apache Fop at
> > > http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html
> > > 
> > > Gius_.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 1999-03-03 at 17:33, Massimiliano Cialdi wrote:
> > > > how can I obtain a ps (or pdf) from a docbook xml?
> > > > 
> > > > the file is ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/linux/drivers2/bookindex.xml
> > > > 
> > > > I use linux, which files do I need to download?
> > > > 
> > > > thanks
> > > > -- 
> > > > Massimiliano Cialdi
> > > > cialdi@control.dsi.unifi.it
> > > > cialdi@firenze.net
> > > 
> > > 
> 
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