Re[2]: [xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?

From: Dawid Weiss (Dawid.Weiss@cs.put.poznan.pl)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 11:58:14 PDT

  • Next message: Jeff Beal: "RE: Re[2]: [xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?"

    Thanks Jeff - I looked at the projects you mentioned. They indeed
    provide simple customizations over the default set of stylesheets.
    Don't get me wrong - I think the default stylesheets look o.k., just
    like LaTeX's stylesheets are hard to beat. I was simply looking for
    variety... I mean - docbook is a set of tags that at least
    theoretically should be easy to customize into whatever people can
    think of, right? In reality all the processed documents I see look
    pretty much the same (a slightly different flavor of the default
    stylesheet). We tried to put together a totally different set of
    stylesheets using hard-coded customization in the default docbook
    stylesheets. The result was visually appealing (at least to some), but
    FAR from exhausing the full set of Docbook elements. The conclusion
    being: it is extremely difficult to do something that would differ
    from the default set of stylesheets.

    You can see our version of processed customized docbook at:

    http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/carrot/site/publications/osinski-2003-lingo.pdf
    (it is a large file - over 4.5MB).

    Dawid

    JB> Would you accept customizations of the generic docbook stylesheets? You can
    JB> probably get those if you ask on docbook-apps. (I know that I've put a
    JB> customization or two up on the DocBook Wiki.) There are also a few larger
    JB> projects (e.g., Linux Documentation Project, Gnome, and KDE) that use
    JB> DocBook, and they may have something if you contact them directly.

    JB> Jeff Beal

    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: Dawid Weiss [mailto:Dawid.Weiss@cs.put.poznan.pl]
    >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:56 AM
    >> To: xep-support@renderx.com
    >> Subject: [xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Hello.
    >>
    >> I'm interested if anybody has heard about, or seen, or
    >> possibly has access
    >> to, a set of docbook stylesheets (XSLT) that would
    >> transform then into
    >> XSL:FO. I am looking for something different than
    >> the official
    >> Docbook-xsl:fo stylesheets distributed with Docbook, of course.
    >>
    >> We used to modify the generic docbook stylesheets to suit
    >> our needs and it
    >> worked quite well, but I'm sure there are other stylesheets
    >> out there I am
    >> not aware of.
    >>
    >> Thanks for any pointers.
    >> Dawid
    >>
    >>
    >> _______________________
    >> Dawid Weiss, http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss
    >> Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Poznan UT, Poland
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