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

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

On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older
> versions did not have all the features we needed for PDFs.  Table of
> contents and some other things, as I recall.  We now have a port of the
> latest version of dblatex, but it dies mysteriously and needs more
> investigation.

I don't recall exactly how we do the table of contents, but as I recall 
it's literally a one liner.  For our grammars, we additionally have a 
Table of tables, table of figures, and for one document a Table of 
equations.  Also a glossary, bibliography (for which we use bibtex data 
files, together with the Biber program, which has advantages over the 
older bibtex program), and an index.  The glossary and index require the 
appropriate XML elements, and of course the biblio requires the .bib 
files, but otherwise it's all automagic.

Most of the customization we've had to do has been on the LaTeX side, 
for which we have two style sheets--one for producing PDFs for use 
on-line, the other for camera-ready copy for the print publisher.

Does your system die during the dblatex phase, or the LaTeX phase?  We 
hardly ever see a failure in the dblatex phase, unless there's actually 
an error in the DocBook XML.
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