John Maddock wrote:
I think the toolchain is getting there: we just need better documentation for setting it up. Actually quickbook is trivial to get going, it's the
As I recall some of our SoC students last year submitted some improvements.
Docbook XSL and particularly the FO to PDF translations that are hard: in other words it's the third party stuff that get's you!
Yep.
I have some improved Docbook->FO stylesheets I've been hacking away at: I think we can do much better with PDF generation (syntax highlighted code for starters),
That would be nice :-)
which just leaves the toolchain setup issues. Using XEP rather than Apache FOP for PDF generation makes a huge difference too.
Yeah, the Apache FOP has been a big problem. So did you buy an XEP license or is it just the trial? Unfortunately it's quite expensive... Jeff