On 18 April 2012 17:57, Moulliard, Charles <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Lex,
>
> Thx for the info. As I discover the tool(s), I try to understand how it
> works and the logic behind it. My confusion comes from the fact that with
> asciidoc command, we can provide a theme (= css) during the process of
> transformation from xxx.txt ---> xxx.docbook and finally from xxxx.docbook
> to xxxx.html, xxxx.xhtml, ....
> I was thinking that with a2x we can do the same thing as we have also an
> xslt transformation. But as we are using dblatex by default we must define
> a new db latex format if we would like to change the pdf look'n'feel.
>


Themes do not apply to asciidoc when generating docbook, if you specify css
it is ignored.  Themes and css only apply to html5/xhtml.


>
> Question : Do you know if we could use prince tool with a2x as it allow to
> provide css to the (x)html file when generating the pdf file (
> http://www.princexml.com/) ?
>

a2x does not support Prince

The latest a2x is expandable with backend plugins, but you would have to
write your own.

Cheers
Lex


> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 18 April 2012 07:51, Charles Moulliard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Can we tell to a2x command to use a theme (= css file) like asciidoc
>> > command ? If there is no option for a2x command, how can we tell to
>> > a2x that we would like to use a specific css file during the
>> > transformation process from xxx.txt to xxx.pdf by example or
>>
>> Which PDF toolchain are you using, AFAIK the only ones using CSS to
>> specify PDF styling are commercial ones (eg Antenna house) not dblatex
>> or FOP as supported by a2x.
>>
>> For epub, the css can be specified with xsltproc-opts the same as for
>> a2x generated HTML.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>> > epub, ... ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Charles
>> >
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