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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'ReillyOpen Source Convention]]
- To: Camille Bégnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'ReillyOpen Source Convention]]
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at pasteur dot fr>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:55:38 +0200
- Cc: docbook-apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>,LDP <ldp-discuss at lists dot linuxdoc dot org>,docbook-tools list <docbook-tools at bazar dot conectiva dot com dot br>
On Wednesday 19 July 2000, at 10 h 41, the keyboard of Camille
=?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9gnis?= <camille@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> I am personally not really happy with jadetex and some others too I
> know.
> Do the other people here use it?
Forced to do so.
> Are you happy with it?
No. It is buggy, it does not handle non-english languages (french typography,
for instance).
> Do you use something else?
For smaller DTDs, I developed my own XML->LaTeX translator.
> Did you think in developing something else?
I vaguely studied doing the same for DocBook but it is not a one-afternoon
project.
> I have unhopeful not the sufficient skills in TeX to initiate it myself,
It does not imply strong LaTeX skills. Just DSSSL or XSL knowledge (and
DocBook fluency, of course).
> but we, at MandrakeSoft, are interested in participating in the project
> of developing a new solution. A completely rewritten "print" stylesheet,
> generating true LaTeX seems to be the solution.
I agree. A DSSSL "stylesheet" can generate LaTeX and so can XSL with the output=text method.