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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019


On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 14:53, Kevin Dunn <kdunn@hsc.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Dave. You were helpful to me 10 years ago. The XEP PDF output looks pretty nice with the default xsl stylesheet. There are some fancy things I achieved with dsssl and jadetex, and I'm not sure how easy they would be with an xsl-fo toolchain:
>
> the Lettrine tex package did a great job producing drop caps.

Nope. Do you really need them?

> I wrote custom dsssl to make xref link to page numbers, for example "These are found in Appendix A (page 127)."

Can do, xslt to produce links in xsl-fo, will product PDF links.

> pdfjadetex produces nice ligatures, including, for example, ffi. Using the default xsl stylesheet, fop doesn't do any ligatures, and xep does fi, but not ffi. Maybe it depends on the font?

Could be, I don't know. Again, essential?


> The titlepage used a custom graphic for the title, rather than rendering it in a font.

Can do. In the xslt to xsl-fo layer.

>
> I'm willing to learn xsl-fo, and I'm willing to spend hundreds, but not thousands of dollars on commercial tools. I've tried xsltproc-fop and xsltproc-xep. Are there other combinations for less than a thousand dollars?

Yes. Antenna house. Expensive, but (IMHO) the best today.

HTH

>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:49:18 AM
> To: Kevin Dunn <kdunn@hsc.edu>
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019
>
> My view, a 12 yo tool chain is plain OOD?
>
> How much work did you put in to the stylesheets?
> Is the up to date XSL too far from what you can manage with?
>
> regards
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> Docbook FAQ.



-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
Docbook FAQ.


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