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RE: docbook suitable for book - creation ?
- From: Stephan Wiesner <stephan at stephan-wiesner dot de>
- To: 'Peter Wilm' <listen at peterwilm dot de>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:26:18 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: docbook suitable for book - creation ?
Hallo Peter,
You can find a German tutorial here, which will certainly help you:
http://rzserv2.fhnon.de/~lg002556/docbuch/
We (three students) are currently writing our diploma thesises in
DocBook and guess the topic: Digital Publishing. I did talk to some
publishers, like Adisson, which even accept XML, though not DocBook and
we are negotiating with some local printing shops.
You can contact me, probably better on a privat line, for specific
questions. You can even do it in German :-)
Stephan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wilm [mailto:listen@peterwilm.de]
> Sent: Sonntag, 17. November 2002 14:35
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK: docbook suitable for book - creation ?
>
>
> Hi,
> The literature for docbook - newbies (e.g. DocBook: The Definitive
> Guide) concentrates on the creation of the structured
> content. However, as I consider learning docbook for writing
> my thesis, I would also like to know how to produce a printed
> version of the book. I do have highly specific constraints
> regarding the Layout: e.g. the size of the left / right page
> margin, etc. So the layout is specified in the stylesheet,
> which is written in XSL or DSSL, I suppose ? Is there any
> online literature suitable for beginners ? So, if I want to
> create a suitable layout for my thesis - not for
> some thesis - but to fullfill the specifications that *I* got
> - will it be easy to learn to write the stylesheet (i.e. in a
> few days) ? With LaTeX everything seems clear to me - but the
> switch LaTeX -> docbook is a bit difficult if you have to
> print the XML - document to a PDF file in a concrete
> specified Layout ? I got the impression that layout doesn't
> matter to the docbook community... Thank you very much for
> any help! Peter.
>