Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to docx

[Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>]

Hi Frederik,

The DocBook stylesheet package includes the roundtripping system that does a two-way conversion from DocBook to Word (and Pages and OpenOffice) and back again. You use a template document to specify the styles when going from DocBook to Word. The system has a template document, but you can supply your own.

If you’re just looking for a one-way conversion, then that would be a good place to start.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

> On 6 Apr 2016, at 5:55 AM, Fredrik Unger <fred@tree.se> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have been trying for a while to generate a Word 2010 file from Docbook.
> I have a Word Template with styles for the most common things
> like Heading 1, Title etc.
> 
> I had some problems with Word 2007 with name changes in styles.
> The style Title became Titel in the German version of Word.
> 
> I would like to simply put the content of a Docbook article into
> a word document using the external template for style.
> Actually
> pandoc --from=docbook --to=docx --reference-docx=Template.docx --output=Article.docx Article.xml
> would do but this does not work very well.
> 
> What ways or tools are available ?
> Do I have to use other formats as intermediate ?
> or is it not possible...
> 
> Basically the article has sections (nested), title, para, imageobjects, and lists.. tables would be a plus.
> Would be ok with a subset but a plus if one can map a tag to a style.
> 
> Any ideas and pointers ?
> I have looked at pandoc and python-docx but the solutions become
> complex and not very automatic.
> There used to be some effort for stylesheets but I guess that would not work with the predefined styles of the Template ?
> 
> Fredrik Unger
> 
> 
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