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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:43:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > regular sectioned content you might get broken bookmarks. I encountered a > good load of problems that were rather easy to fix, which indicates to me > that this tool chain isn't widely used for "serious" applications. We ran into many problems over the past 5 months but we've just finished publication of a 650 page book (The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition) using the Jade/DSSSL toolchain. We used Jade 1.2.1 with some patches from OpenJade to fix things like "--" being treated as a TeX ligature, etc.. We also used Norm Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets v1.73 with several thousand lines of customizations. Eventually we were able to use JadeTeX 3.11 with url.sty to create nice justified output that wraps URLs and filenames properly. A posting by Ian Castle on this list several months ago showed how to get the page numbering sorted out so that the front matter (including the preface) is in Roman numerals while Part I starts the Arabic numbers. We also did some work to tweak the footnote generation and to ensure that chapters and parts always start on recto pages. I'm pretty happy with the end result, the cover and the part divider illustrations were done on MacOS X with QuarkExpress 4.1. If I ever do this again I would like to investigate the FrameMaker or RTF backends some more and see if I could do more of the final touches in a page layout application. Tweaking the TeX (and yes even the final PostScript file was loaded into emacs) was a bit too primitive for my tastes. ;) Almost all of the customizations that we made to the DocBook stylesheets for our printed output have been checked into the FreeBSD Documentation Project CVS repository. The extra options are turned on with the 'BOOK_OUTPUT' make variable, so typing 'make BOOK_OUTPUT=1 FORMATS=ps' will generate high quality PostScript versions of the FreeBSD Documentation Set (or any other document that uses the FreeBSD infrastructure). - Murray --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72zp/tNcQog5FH30RAj3wAKCtRLXymDk38iTda07ewynDZ1z62gCeKfhQ Xm9njsiS0RNVtp6s1/6BD28= =FyaQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1UWUbFP1cBYEclgG--