For anyone who is inclined to fiddle, can you include some basic
instructions on how to produce a pdf, let's say for just the Getting
Started guide, using saxon and the default DITA xslt stylesheets as a
starting point? Are these style sheets included in any of the downloads
from http://incubator.apache.org/derby/manuals? Also, maybe it would
help to post a pdf that exhibits the issues you and Scott discussed.
-jean
Jeff Levitt wrote:
Another issue I was hoping to discuss is the PDF
output of the DITA files. Scott Hutinger and I spent
some time using saxon and fop to create pdf's from the
dita, and we found that some of the issues we are
having with it can be worked around (for example, a
solution Scott found for the lack of a generated
index), but also some that we need more knowledge of
XSL to fix. For example, when one page links to
another page, the link doesnt show the title of the
new page, it instead displays an id for the page,
which is jibberish. Is there anyone out there that
knows XSL enough to be able to modify the DITA XSL
files so that they display information correctly?
There are currently three books available on the Derby
Manuals page that are already in DITA, so if anyone
wants to work with them, they are already available.
