Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: free DocBook tools that handle Japanese

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Hiroki Sato <hrs@jp.FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> wrote
>   in <20020128114653.Z15909@redhat.com>:
> 
> twaugh> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:44:51AM -0600, Michael Smith wrote:
> twaugh> 
> twaugh> >  * XSLT engine: xsltproc (outputs ISO-8859-1 with character references
> twaugh> >    for the Japanese characters)
> twaugh> 
> twaugh> How about for FO processing?
> 
>  You can use Japanized FOP (http://jpfop.sourceforge.net/index.html).
> 
>  By the way, OpenJade (for DocBook/SGML) and xsltproc (for DocBook/XML)
>  can work properly for Japanese documents (I am actually using them).

Sato-san: How about for Passivetext? I don't have it set up for
working with Japanese yet. Do you know what's needed? I think it
should be possible to get Japanese output from FO through Passivetext
and then Japan-localized dvips/dvipdf?

  --Mike