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RE: docbook -> FO via xsltproc
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at motive dot com>
- To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>,docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:04:39 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook -> FO via xsltproc
In this post Norm supplies an xsl that pretty prints xml:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2003-q1/msg00176.html
fop.extensions does more than just add bookmarks--several things that
help/confuse fop are included/excluded based on that setting. But I
understand that using DocBook + fop still requires that you be willing
to live with fop's current limitations:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2003-q1/msg01276.html
Hope that information helps you get outside a little sooner :)
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at mindspring dot com]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:19 AM
To: docbook apps list
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook -> FO via xsltproc
a couple of quick questions regarding docbook -> FO and beyond.
first, i'm experimenting with FOP for the eventual FO -> PDF
conversion, so i'm using xsltproc to generate the intermediate
FO for the time being. is there an option with "xsltproc" to
generate "tidy" FO? or some kind of tidy utility so i can
inspect the generated FO? currently, AFAICT, the generated
FO consists of perfectly legal but horrendously long text
lines and i see no way to adjust that. (is there such a
thing as a FOP "viewer"?)
and, second, is there anything specific i should add/adjust
in a stylesheet for processing docbook, knowing that i want to
generate FO that i will eventually pass to FOP? from
docbook.sourceforge.net, i see a single "fop.extensions"
parameter, but those extensions apparently consist totally
of PDF bookmarks, so it's not like that represents a major
overhaul of the output. is there anything else FOP-specific
i should be taking into account regarding stylesheets?
thanks.
rday
p.s. it's *way* too nice to be sitting inside on a day like
this. dang.