Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?

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I have found that FOP seems to have problems with
admonitions graphics...
----- Original Message -----
From: <zmola@acm.org>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?


>
> I have dropped back to using TeX for the time being.  When I get my new
computer
> stable I will try again.
>
> Do other people agree that Saxon and FOP (with the appriate Docbook DTD
> and Style Sheets) is a usable and fairly robust system?
>
> On 8 Aug 2002 at 9:02, fyl2xp1 wrote:
>
> > I have personally found this toolchain to be the most non-broken out
> > of those I have tried. With the exception that I am not using Cygwin.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair)" <arankine@avaya.com>
> > To: <zmola@acm.org>; <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:28 PM
> > Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use lots of different tools in a cygwin environment to generate output
> > from DocBook XML source.
> >
> > It seems to me that if you have Java 1.4, cygwin and emacs already
> > configured then you are probably very well on your way to a working
cygwin
> > config. I'm surprised that Markus' instructions "confound matters" - the
> > tools he suggests seem to be the ones you are using already.
> >
> > Since you don't seem to have a specific problem to answer, let me just
> > assure you that cygwin is a perfectly usable DocBook authoring
environment.
> > My current (ie default) preferences for tools are:
> >
> > - Java Runtime Environment 1.4.0
> > - latest (I forget which version) cygwin and tools
> > - Saxon 6.5.2
> > - FOP 0.20.4
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: zmola@acm.org [mailto:zmola@acm.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:40 PM
> > > To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get started with DocBook on Windows XP.
> > > I've decided that I should probably use XML DocBook, but I am also
> > > looking for the easiest way to get started.
> > >
> > > If there was an install program that installed the needed
> > > tools, I would use that.
> > >
> > > I've been using Markus Hoenicka's instructions, but I have already
> > > set up some tools (Java 1.4, CygWin and Emacs) for my other
> > > development.
> > > This seems to confound matters.
> > >
> > > All of the different tools that are listed in Markus's
> > > directions seem to
> > > be getting in my way.
> > >
> > > The current version of Cygwin seems to have XSLTproc as an optional
> > > component, so that seems to work ok.
> > >
> > > I would like to take fo to pdf or LaTeX.  What is the
> > > simplest way to do this
> > > (simple meaning the easiest tools to install on windows).
> > >
> > > I seem to be fighting installation and configuration.
> > > Does anyone have any sugestions.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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