Re: [docbook] Re: [docbook-apps] using qandaentry

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

Jason Novotny wrote:
>    Now that I see FOP is pretty much unsupported or unmaintained since 
> it hasn't seen any new releases in nearly 2 years, I'll have to 
> re-evaluate my reasons for using docbook in the first place ;-)

Instead of using FOP to generate printed output, I cobbled together
an XSLT stylesheet that translates docbook to LaTeX.  That works
pretty well.

Sample input:
http://per.bothner.com/papers/Qexo04/Qexo04.xml
HTML output:
http://per.bothner.com/papers/Qexo04/Qexo04.html
LaTex output:
http://per.bothner.com/papers/Qexo04/Qexo04.tex
PDF output generated from above:
http://per.bothner.com/papers/Qexo04/Qexo04.pdf

It does require a little bit of pre- and post-processing
using the standard Unix 'sed' command, in addition to xsltproc,
and TeX.  Somebody who know xslt and docbook better could probably
do a better job, but I can provide the scripts if interested.
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