Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

[Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@kovesdan.org>]

Em 05-04-2013 16:00, Tony Graham escreveu:
> On Fri, April 5, 2013 2:09 pm, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
> > I plan to apply to this year's Summer of Code and I wanted to share my
> > idea with you for discussion. I've been using DocBook both for personal
> > documents (CV, Bachelor and Master Thesis, papers, etc.) and in the
> > FreeBSD Project. I'm usually satisfied with the output that Apache FOP
> > creates but I believe the PDF generation should be better supported. The
> > only usable open source XSL FO renderer is Apache FOP (xmlroff is very
> > immature and is not actively developed) so we have no alternatives.
> Ouch.
What do you exactly mean here? If you don't agree with this statement, 
could you please elaborate?
> Have you looked at speedata Publisher
> (http://speedata.github.com/publisher/), which is open source, works with
> XML, and has LuaTeX underneath?  (I haven't used it myself.)
Not yet but thank you for the hint, I'll take a look. But it also seems 
to have quite some dependencies (Ruby, Rake, Jekyll, Go) and it won't be 
able to integrate into DocBook XSL as much.

Gabor