[docbook-apps] xsl fo stylesheets for (la)TeX like output

[Noah Slater <nslater@gmail.com>]

Hey,

Have you tried http://xmlroff.org/ - I havn't used it personaly, but
it seems to be the only free alternative to passivetex for FO
processing.

HTH,
Noah

On 1/29/06, Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 15:02, Jakob Praher wrote:
> >
> > I am currently writing my master thesis. though i
> > would like to use
> > docbook, since i have some experience in it, i can't
> > find any really
> > satisfying xsl fo stylesheets that produce pdf output
> > in style similarly to TeX.
>
> What do you mean by "similarly to TeX"? The layout, the font or just the
> overall appearance? In one of my documents I use the LatinRoman[1] fonts
> that are derived from Computer Modern, convert my DocBook into FO and
> render it with XEP. With some meaningful margin settings the PDF looks
> very similar to (La)TeX.
>
>
> > I tryied dblatex[1] and the default docbook fo
> > stylesheets, but had
> > problems with dblatex cause of the complexity of my
> > documents.
>
> How complex are your documents? Do you use a lot of math formulas? Or is
> the structure itself complex? Could you be a bit more elaborate,
> please? :)
>
>
> > I think
> > you have to write the docbook in a very latex way. I
> > would really like
> > to see something that is usable without a lot of
> > tweaking.
>
> Well, if you do not really want to tweak too much, then a DocBook to FO
> transformation would probably be interesting. If you don't mind, RenderX
> offers a Free Personal Edition. Its only limitation is that it prints a
> logo on one of the margins. With the help of the DocBook stylesheets and
> Bobs book[3] this should be managable.
>
> However I don't really know how complex your documents are, so I can only
> guess. :)
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> Tom
>
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> [1] ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm/
> [2] http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html
> [3] http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
>
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> Thomas Schraitle
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