Nicely put, Dan. Thank you for chipping in. Any ideas about what would be the best DocBook *toolchain* to use? And, is *a2x* still the best *toolchain manager*?
I'm now wondering if it is possible, at all, to have *a2x* installed without the legacy AsciiDoc processor. I'm betting, however, this is not only technically unpractical, but outright heresy... What are your thoughts on this Lex? Please, have mercy on me ;-) I'm thinking of using AsciiDoc (and, most probably, Asciidoctor, giving the fact that my *AsciiDoc.py* installation is still at an impasse) for writing my notes, blog posts, invoices and reports, while still using LaTeX for what it is best at, i.e., working with---and beautifully typesetting---formulas and abundant amounts of bibliographical material to be printed out (and possibly published). Even so, I would like to have the opportunity of working with a DocBook toolchain from time-to-time, to try out new things. Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. Cheers, Zam El martes, 2 de marzo de 2021 a la(s) 03:04:26 UTC-5, [email protected] escribió: > > Lex wrote: > > asciidoctor can generate docbook so it can be fed to dblatex and latex > in the same way. Or the xslproc/fop chain can be used. > > To confirm, I use the later pipeline from time to time, as do several > heavy Asciidoctor users. I think Apache FOP does an amicable job of > generating PDFs from DocBook and is actually where some of the inspiration > for Asciidoctor PDF originated. (Asciidoctor PDF has gone a lot further, > but FOP still does some things better, like footnotes). I test the dblatex > pipeline less often because dblatex requires so many packages to be > installed. When I do need to test it, I tend to resort to Docker so I can > keep it contained. But I do know that it works. It might be a topic worthy > of some documentation on the Asciidoctor docs site. > > Best Regards, > > -Dan > > -- > Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/a375a7cc-4b39-40c4-9372-eac7519fb886n%40googlegroups.com.
