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Re: docbook xml - paper based outputs?


Jeffrey Franks writes:

 > Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a
 > table intensive document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF
 > somehow. My expectation is that it would look like a real book,
 > with a real index, and not look ugly.

Too vague a specification. what is "ugly"? what is "real"? 

Remember that a real index is generally made by a professional
indexer, not by a writer scattering index tags through the book. I
have done books with the latter route, and you get an index, but its
not as good asa `real' one.

sebastian


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