On 9/13/2015 12:19 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote:
2. The complexity of customizing the default look of the documents,
which look OK, but don't look as good as they would need to be to be
put in front of a client.
That is difficult. Based on my unscientific sampling, XSL is not
well-regarded. As languages go, it's rarely used and poorly understood.
And then there is the separation between print and other media, which
usually means also dealing with XSL-FO and Fop. Fop has its own set of
problems.
FWIW, there is (at least) one alternative: dblatex
(http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/). No XSL-FO, rather it uses XSLT to
convert a DocBook doc to a LaTeX doc, then you run LaTeX. We've used it
for book-length grammars (with a couple additions to support things that
linguists need). The grammars are (if I may say so) nicely formatted,
support right-to-left text, etc.
--
Mike Maxwell
maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
"I cannot believe that our existence in this universe
is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an
incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our
involvement is too intimate. The physical species
Homo may count for nothing, but the existence of
mind in some organism on some planet in the universe
is surely a fact of fundamental significance. Through
conscious beings the universe has generated
self-awareness." --Paul Davies
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