Alternatives for Fop?

[Rob van der Putten]

Hi there


Are there any alternatives for Fop that support Docbook?
I'm having problems with <screen> ... </screen>.
It's too wide, even though none of the screen dumps is wider than 80
chars.
Is there any way to tweak xsltproc or Fop in such a way that everything
gets neatly scaled and aligned?


Regards,
Rob
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[Paul A. Hoadley]

Re: Alternatives for Fop?

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:33:25 +0100, Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> wrote:
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> Are there any alternatives for Fop that support Docbook?[/color]

The short answer is: yes. The longer answer starts with a question:
does the application need to be free? I use and recommend a
commercial product called XEP:

http://www.renderx.net/Content/tools/xep.html

There are other commercial products. Some of the formatters listed
here are free:

http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookPublishingTools

You can also use the DSSSL/OpenJade toolchain on XML source.
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> I'm having problems with <screen> ... </screen>. It's too wide,
> even though none of the screen dumps is wider than 80 chars. Is
> there any way to tweak xsltproc or Fop in such a way that everything
> gets neatly scaled and aligned?[/color]

Post your query (with some source, and details on any customisation
layers) to the docbook-apps mailing list:

docbook-apps@lists.oasi s-open.org


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[Rob van der Putten]

Re: Alternatives for Fop?

Hi there


"Paul A. Hoadley" wrote:
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> The short answer is: yes. The longer answer starts with a question:
> does the application need to be free? I use and recommend a
> commercial product called XEP:
>
> http://www.renderx.net/Content/tools/xep.html
>
> There are other commercial products. Some of the formatters listed
> here are free:
>
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookPublishingTools
>
> You can also use the DSSSL/OpenJade on XML source.[/color]

Which has other problems, so now I use a hybrid;
I wrote a little util wich converts de UTF-8 XML source into a US-ACII
SGML file with '&#ddddd;' for non-ASCII.
I use xsltproc to generate html from XML and DSSSL/Jade to generate
postscript and PDF from SGML.
[color=blue]
> Post your query (with some source, and details on any customisation
> layers) to the docbook-apps mailing list:
>
> docbook-apps@lists.oasi s-open.org[/color]

Google suggests that this is a old problem, zo I don't see the point.


Regards,
Rob
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