On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Maurice Diamantini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 3 juin 08 à 09:43, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : > >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Maurice Diamantini >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Just some remarks/questions: >>> - docbook seems to be the standard for describing documentation data, >>> - dblatex seams to be a currently good supported tools for **easely** >>> provide pdf output from docbook input, and cutomize the output >>> with .xsl >>> parameters or LaTeX .sty files >>> - dbcontext seams not to be maintained very much >> >> I don't think the code in the module is nowadays a good example for >> writing >> a module because many low level commands are redefined and it should >> work now out of the box with the current code or better witth MkIV. >> >>> - ConTeXt seams to be able to directly parse xml without external >>> tools >>> >>> So, what about make ConTeXt directly reading dokbook file and output >>> pdf file? I see the http://www.leverkruid.eu/context/index.html >>> page from >>> Simon Pepping. But it seems that this project is down. >> >> The module you mention above is the only (complete?) docbook style >> but ConTeXt provides cals table support by default and mapping for the >> basic elements to ConTeXt shouldn't be a problem, >> give us the information what do you need and we write a module. > > Thank you very much, you confirm that the "DocbookInContext" from > Simon Pepping is still the way to go.
No, I meant we should better start from scratch, as Hans told the code is bad style and you should avoid to redefine core or low level macros. > I've no specific request, I just forward some interest by the web > community > to converting from docbook to pdf more or less automaticaly. > I fact, my original interest come from the work of the jelix team (a > MVC php Framwork) > whose documentation was only online (dokuwiki). > Following some user feedback, Jelix team have then generate docbook > from that wiki > filesss+ and make pdf file thanks to the (not maintained) db2latex tool. > I look after a more uptodate tool (for further customisation) and > found dblatex as mention on the (french) forum: > > http://jelix.org/forums/read.php?10,2680,page=4#msg-2872 Looks like spain to me ;-) > The result was that the simple command: > > dblatex jelix-manual.xml > > produce a "correct" (i.e. readable) jelix-manual.pdf file without any > customisation (with default table of content, correct verbatim, ...) > which was not the case for db2latex. > But then, any customisation will be a latex style, which is more hacking > than ConTeXt (I think so, but I'm sure you agree ;-) One of the easiest things with ConTeXt, you could change the header style with \setupheader[...][..,..=..,..], you need only a extra file with all your settings. > Nevertheless, the first criterion was that it just works in simple case. > If some magic command (or a simple tutorial) like : > > texexec --docbook jelix-manual.xml better texexec --ctx=docbook jelix-manual.xml > do some equivalent work than the above dblatex, no doubt that the > ConTeXt community will increase by more than 100%! > > Cordialement, > -- Maurice Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
