Re: [docbook-apps] Need recommendations for the best modern Linuxbackend tools for DocBook

[Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann@redhat.com>]

On 11/24/2010 09:34 AM, maxwell wrote:
> I haven't done a *comparison*, but we routinely use dblatex + XeTeX (= a
> Unicode-aware version of LaTeX) to produce multi-lingual PDF documents.  We
> chose this route because it wasn't clear that the FOP route would deal well
> with some of the scripts we needed, such as the Nasta'liq version of the
> Arabic script.
Off the main topic, but FOP can't handle right-to-left scripts at all 
right now (version 1.0) -- support is expected in 1.1 -- 
http://www.mail-archive.com/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/msg15558.html