Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook

[Craig Boone <craig at estinc dot com>]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I've gotten around this the easy way, I don't use pdfjadetex.  Instead,
> I use a tool called htmldoc, which convers from HTML to PS/PDF, and does
> a VERY nice job at it.  The only thing that's missing is that it doesn't
> convert the external (href) hyperlinks to something useful along the
> way.  I can do this with jade, but jade is slow.
> 
>     Greg

Is htmldoc something that you created, or is it something that's
available for download?  I can't seem to get any of the pdf/ps
conversions to occur properly with the DocBook tools that I have.  I'm
using the db2pdf and db2ps scripts and all they seem to do is explode
and spew latex errors everywhere.  I can write picture-perfect sgml and
it makes lovely html conversions, but it doesn't do me much good if I
can't get it printed. 

I've been monitoring this list and watching all of the "Future of
DocBook" threads and I gotta say it's a great project and I'd love to be
able to set it as a standard to create all of my documentation. 
However, I just can't seem to get a dependable set of tools and solidly
implement them.  Suggestions?

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