Morning Raphael,
> There's dblatex which can do Docbook -> LaTeX -> PDF. I believe that
dblatex can fullfill al the requirements of Publican even support for
non-Latin languages provided that we use the right options and LaTeX
implementation (i.e. xetex instead of the default pdftex).
I had a look at dblatex on (Ubuntu) Mint 13 KDE. It works really well
out of the box. The default XSLT engine is pdftex but it's an option to
use xetex - which is installed in the package.
Good points?
It works well, it correctly renders indexes and, where there are
multiple indexterms on a number of consecutive pages, it automagically
converts into a page range - so I only need to use an indexterm with
primary/secondary - I don;t need the start and end of range stuff. Very
useful indeed.
It correctly renders to pdf the screen and programlistings that I'm
seeing corruption on in Publican 2.8.2 (See separate thread).
Everything else, so far, appears pretty good.
Bad points?
It barfs with "bad docbook" on a book of mine which validates as correct
Docbook, and which Publican happily renders to pdf (with screen and
programlisting troubles though) but doesn't say where there's a problem.
That makes debugging a tad interesting.
I haven't figured out how to get brands involved yet, so the default
styles etc are used, there are options for different styles which might
be useful though.
At some point I might find the time required to add a dblatex backend
in Publican... the upstream author of dblatex is also very supportive
in case we have specific requirements.
This might be a far better arrangement that wkhtmltopdf (sorry Jeff!) as
there's no need for modified QT etc, and it seems to "just work". I'll
give it a play with and see what I can get out of it. Thanks for the
heads up.
Cheers,
Norm.
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