On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 14:53, Kevin Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Dave. You were helpful to me 10 years ago. The XEP PDF output looks > pretty nice with the default xsl stylesheet. There are some fancy things I > achieved with dsssl and jadetex, and I'm not sure how easy they would be with > an xsl-fo toolchain: > > the Lettrine tex package did a great job producing drop caps.
Nope. Do you really need them? > I wrote custom dsssl to make xref link to page numbers, for example "These > are found in Appendix A (page 127)." Can do, xslt to produce links in xsl-fo, will product PDF links. > pdfjadetex produces nice ligatures, including, for example, ffi. Using the > default xsl stylesheet, fop doesn't do any ligatures, and xep does fi, but > not ffi. Maybe it depends on the font? Could be, I don't know. Again, essential? > The titlepage used a custom graphic for the title, rather than rendering it > in a font. Can do. In the xslt to xsl-fo layer. > > I'm willing to learn xsl-fo, and I'm willing to spend hundreds, but not > thousands of dollars on commercial tools. I've tried xsltproc-fop and > xsltproc-xep. Are there other combinations for less than a thousand dollars? Yes. Antenna house. Expensive, but (IMHO) the best today. HTH > > > ________________________________ > From: Dave Pawson <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:49:18 AM > To: Kevin Dunn <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive > 2019 > > My view, a 12 yo tool chain is plain OOD? > > How much work did you put in to the stylesheets? > Is the up to date XSL too far from what you can manage with? > > regards > -- > Dave Pawson > XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > Docbook FAQ. -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
