Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

[maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>]

On 9/13/2015 12:19 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote:
> > 2. The complexity of customizing the default look of the documents,
> > which look OK, but don't look as good as they would need to be to be
> > put in front of a client.
>
> That is difficult.  Based on my unscientific sampling, XSL is not
> well-regarded.  As languages go, it's rarely used and poorly understood.
> And then there is the separation between print and other media, which
> usually means also dealing with XSL-FO and Fop.  Fop has its own set of
> problems.

FWIW, there is (at least) one alternative: dblatex 
(http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/).  No XSL-FO, rather it uses XSLT to 
convert a DocBook doc to a LaTeX doc, then you run LaTeX.  We've used it 
for book-length grammars (with a couple additions to support things that 
linguists need).  The grammars are (if I may say so) nicely formatted, 
support right-to-left text, etc.
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