Re: [docbook-apps] Compile xsl with xalan

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Pawson
On 03/03/10 07:35, Stefan Kost wrote: Am 03.03.2010 09:15, schrieb Remko Tronçon: Do you have to do Java? Unless you know of a free FO renderer written in another language, I most of the time eventually do. cheers, Remko If your target is pdf, I found dblatex superior to e.g. fop. Stefan

Re: [docbook-apps] Footer odd/even page problem when chapters do not begin on an odd page

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Ristic
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Bob Stayton b...@sagehill.net wrote: Hi, I'm not quite clear on this problem.  You said: - My book has parts and my first part falls on an odd page (left). In my experience, odd pages are right-hand pages, so I don't understand what you mean here. Hmm,

Re: [docbook-apps] Compile xsl with xalan

2010-03-03 Thread Remko Tronçon
Hi, There are 2 steps to producing PDF from Docbook XML. Right, and that's what I've been doing for years. However, my point was that, although I didn't measure it yet, I expect a lot of the lost time in processing to be due to the overhead of starting a java VM. If I'm going to start the VM

Re: [docbook-apps] Compile xsl with xalan

2010-03-03 Thread Carlos Araya
I guess it's up to the individual. Ant is the answer to your comment about using batch/shell scripts. It is written in Java so it's portable and can be built so classpaths are not necessary; they are built by Ant as part of the build process. There's still a learning curve but it's less steep

Re: [docbook-apps] Compile xsl with xalan

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan Kost
Am 03.03.2010 16:41, schrieb Dave Pawson: On 03/03/10 11:18, Stefan Kost wrote: dblatex has not been supported for a number of years now. I am talking about this: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ My apologies. No compliance table? Any idea how complete it is? I haven't seen a

[docbook-apps] RE: [docbook] RE: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] DocBook and Google Summer of Code ?

2010-03-03 Thread David Cramer
I added another proposal for the candidate to go through the open DocBook xsl feature requests and knock some out: http://docbook.xmlpress.net/tiki-index.php?page=ImplementSomeFeatureRequ ests Not sure if that would sound attractive to a candidate or not, but it would be nice if that list were