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Re: tools jungle
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Radoslaw dot Szymanek at cs dot lth dot se
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:02:36 +0100
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: tools jungle
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202251731540.22713-100000@ygg>
/ Radoslaw Szymanek <Radoslaw.Szymanek@cs.lth.se> was heard to say:
| What do I need (must be free available) if I want to write articles in
| DocBook and then create pdf files.
|
| I have already tried these set of tools:
| openjade, dsssl 1.76
| fop, xerces, xalan, xsl 1.49
Since you want MathML support, I suggest that you give PassiveTeX a try.
I believe it has builtin support for MathML. Specifically, pick one of these:
Saxon
Xalan
xsltproc
and use
XSL 1.49
to produce FO files and PassiveTeX to produce PDF.
| Which set of tools has a chance of getting MathMl support faster?
PassiveTeX.
| Which stylesheet language is more user friendly :)
That's a matter of some debate, I expect. But XSLT is a better long-term bet.
| or IEEE article format
| is available for it?
I'd be surprised (but delighted) if IEEE had a stylesheet for either format.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | All the good maxims already exist
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Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | apply them.--Pascal