Re: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 2/10/2011 8:02 PM, ben.guillon wrote: In a word, if you know and like latex you'll be in a friendly world. As a happy user of dblatex, I'll second Benoit's (and Robert Buergel's) response. We use it for typesetting grammars, where the primary language is English and the secondary language

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread ben.guillon
obert.buer...@bmw.de" To: rossmannj...@yahoo.com; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 12:08:58 PM Subject: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie Hi Jonny, we are useing dblatex (http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ ) for some documents and produce w

Re: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread DeanNelson
Johnny All three items are quite easily doable.You need to have a customization layer that "adjusts" the builtin capabilities. Bob Stayton's book is a must. I still reference it even after years of working with Docbook. And this is the correct forum for getting those answers. I would sugg

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread John Rossmann
With your Latex-background I would suggest dblatex. Regards Robert -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Rossmann [mailto:rossmannj...@yahoo.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011 11:41 An: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Betreff: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from

AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread Robert.Buergel
I would suggest dblatex. Regards Robert -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Rossmann [mailto:rossmannj...@yahoo.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011 11:41 An: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Betreff: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie Hi, recently I got

[docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread John Rossmann
Hi, recently I got started with my first docbook document, and I am very satisfied with the great possibilities to publish a number of output formats from a single structured document. Coming from LaTeX, I am looking for possibilities to customize high quality PDF output. For example, I'd like