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

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

On 2015-09-14 03:07, Eric Streit wrote:
> I tried DBLaTeX: the output is better, but it's only docbook 4.

Not sure what you mean here.  You mean you're still working in DB4?  I 
vaguely recall that we started out using dblatex with DB4 before we 
moved to DB5.  At any rate we've been using dblatex with DB5 for a long 
time.  I *think* dblatex still handles DB4, but I haven't tried it for 
years (if at all).

> Some of the above problems were solved using DBLaTeX, but the output
> needs some adjustements: maybe new styles ....

No doubt.  Fortunately and unfortunately, there's a huge number of pages 
on the web about formatting LaTeX documents to look like nearly anything 
you can imagine.  FWIW, I would recommend using xelatex, rather than 
vanilla latex, because xelatex (often referred to as xetex: xetex is to 
xelatex as tex is to latex) handles Unicode UTF-8 out of the box.  
Almost all LaTeX packages can be used in XeLaTeX (the ones that can't 
are mostly ones that do something special with non-unicode characters).  
dblatex will output xe(la)tex-conformant code if you give it the command 
line parameter
    -b xetex

   Mike Maxwell