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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Professor wants RTF / APA, what to do?
<mindfuq@comcast.net> writes: >I have a professor who wants papers in RTF format, and they must be >APA compliant. I normally do everything in LaTeX to get the APA >compliance, and submit PDF's; but the professor can't take PDF because >he wants to be able to comment and redline on it and hand it back. [...] >So I'm starting to look into DocBook. I read that DocBook can output >RTF documents. Can you folks tell me if it will do the job I need? One possibility would be to use "jfor", a XSL-FO-to-RTF converter at: http://www.jfor.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfor Sourceforge lists it as "alpha" quality. I've never used it, so I cannot attest to its stability or results--I've just heard about it. So, the workflow would be to modify the DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets to meet the APA formatting requirements, transform the DocBook to FO, and use jfor to transform the FO to RTF. However, as an alpha-level tool, obviously, this may be fraught with peril. ;-) Modifying the stylesheets would also require learning some XSLT and FO. m@ +-mbraun@urbana.css.mot.com-+- I was chasin' a ghost pale and white ----------+ | Matt Braun -- Motorola, | and hard to see; The boys in blue from | |Urbana/Champaign Design Ctr| Peculiar School are hangin' out in the dark | +CellularSubscriberSomething+-- and they're lookin' for me. ------------[SR]-+
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