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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Newbie's therapy
At 00:12 24/05/2003 +0300, Antonios Christofides wrote: >Could you please give me a hint on which tools you'd recommend, and a >couple of guidelines to get me going? Thanks! And I promise I'll flood >you with more specific questions afterwards :-) When I first tried Docbook (two years ago) it was with the DSSSL/Openjade/JadeTeX tools, as a requirement was for good quality printed output, and TeX based output engines offered the best quality. I eventually gave up the struggle and the documentation project was put on the back burner. Meanwhile I started using XML and XSLT for web-based projects (the same XML sources generating HTML, PHP, SQL, etc, just by writing different stylesheets), so when the original documentation project resurfaced a couple of months ago there was no question of using anything other than the XSL stylesheets. xsltproc has been my XSLT engine of choice - it's fast and works, supports xinclude, etc (thank you Daniel). Because I've been a long time fan of TeX, I started off using PassiveTeX as the FO to PDF engine and was quite successful with the first versions of our manual. However, I also soon realised that PassiveTeX has a number of limitations and 'funnies' so I investigated some of the commercial FO to PDF tools and bought a copy of XEP - it just works and has done everything asked of it so far. Good luck, David Brooks
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