RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: producing high quality output with docbook xsl
Title: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: producing high quality output with docbook xsl If you want to use db2latex, don't use it's README file for installing instructions. db2latex is now standalone package which is not copied into DocBook XSL stylesheets. If you copy it there, it won't work. Just grab latest db2latex from CVS and use it as is. After correcting few errors you can get quite good PDF from db2latex. Sounds good! I was also looking for a better formatter. Since I'm also very familiar with latex2e it looks like a goog solution for me. So I looked for the latest release and got a rpm from suse 7.3 It's working -- but with several errors: 1. qandasets have empty xsl templates -- no output is generated 2. german language setting (lang=de) is not honoured (e.g. chapter namings, parskip and parindent seems to be english style) 3. table entries are one-liners and produce overfull lines (should be parboxe'd) 4. I provide two imagefile (one in eps, the other in png) for all images. Both are rendered into the latex file and latex trys to display both (side by side, failing with the png-file) while pdflatex successfully (but wrongly) displays both of them (sublabled with a) and b) ) 5. Carets and some other chars are not translated into latex code so I get errors from them. 6. maybe soveral more bugs Actually the result looks realy good, even bookmarks are generated in pdf --- something I still don't get to work with jadetex (yes, Yann , I read your mail but I already use this setting without any success; well I didn't try sgml2x yet). My question is: Are there any updates/bugfixes for db2latex? Is there a specific mail list about db2latex? Greetings, Norbert
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: producing high quality output with docbook xsl
Pfistner, Norbert wrote: So I looked for the latest release and got a rpm from suse 7.3 It's working -- but with several errors: 1. qandasets have empty xsl templates -- no output is generated 2. german language setting (lang=de) is not honoured (e.g. chapter namings, parskip and parindent seems to be english style) 3. table entries are one-liners and produce overfull lines (should be parboxe'd) 4. I provide two imagefile (one in eps, the other in png) for all images. Both are rendered into the latex file and latex trys to display both (side by side, failing with the png-file) while pdflatex successfully (but wrongly) displays both of them (sublabled with a) and b) ) 5. Carets and some other chars are not translated into latex code so I get errors from them. 6. maybe soveral more bugs Yes, there is a lot of unsupported things. I must rewrite some templates to customize it and to get Czech language working. You can download whole my DocBook sources and customization templates for db2latex at http://www.kosek.cz/diplomka/dp.zip. There is some info about these changes at http://www.kosek.cz/diplomka/ but it is in Czech language, unfortunately. Are there any updates/bugfixes for db2latex? AFAIK no, author stoped development temporaly as is stated at db2latex homepage (http://db2latex.sourceforge.net). Jirka -- - Jirka Kosek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kosek.cz
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: producing high quality output with docbook xsl
Steffen Petter wrote: PassiveTex was not satisfying for me. The stylesheet package db2latex (0.51 and cvs 0.60) was incompatible with xsl 1.50.0. I would prefer to render high quality outputs with Latex but I am not able to bring together db2latex and dbxsl 1.50.0. Is there anybody who successfully tried this? Or is there another method for producing high quality outputs? If you want to use db2latex, don't use it's README file for installing instructions. db2latex is now standalone package which is not copied into DocBook XSL stylesheets. If you copy it there, it won't work. Just grab latest db2latex from CVS and use it as is. After correcting few errors you can get quite good PDF from db2latex. See http://www.kosek.cz/diplomka/dp.pdf Jirka -- - Jirka Kosek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kosek.cz
