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Re: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?


I have dropped back to using TeX for the time being.  When I get my new  computer
stable I will try again.

Do other people agree that Saxon and FOP (with the appriate Docbook DTD 
and Style Sheets) is a usable and fairly robust system?

On 8 Aug 2002 at 9:02, fyl2xp1 wrote:

> I have personally found this toolchain to be the most non-broken out
> of those I have tried. With the exception that I am not using Cygwin.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair)" <arankine@avaya.com>
> To: <zmola@acm.org>; <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:28 PM
> Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use lots of different tools in a cygwin environment to generate output
> from DocBook XML source.
> 
> It seems to me that if you have Java 1.4, cygwin and emacs already
> configured then you are probably very well on your way to a working cygwin
> config. I'm surprised that Markus' instructions "confound matters" - the
> tools he suggests seem to be the ones you are using already.
> 
> Since you don't seem to have a specific problem to answer, let me just
> assure you that cygwin is a perfectly usable DocBook authoring environment.
> My current (ie default) preferences for tools are:
> 
> - Java Runtime Environment 1.4.0
> - latest (I forget which version) cygwin and tools
> - Saxon 6.5.2
> - FOP 0.20.4
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zmola@acm.org [mailto:zmola@acm.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:40 PM
> > To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to get started with DocBook on Windows XP.
> > I've decided that I should probably use XML DocBook, but I am also
> > looking for the easiest way to get started.
> >
> > If there was an install program that installed the needed
> > tools, I would use that.
> >
> > I've been using Markus Hoenicka's instructions, but I have already
> > set up some tools (Java 1.4, CygWin and Emacs) for my other
> > development.
> > This seems to confound matters.
> >
> > All of the different tools that are listed in Markus's
> > directions seem to
> > be getting in my way.
> >
> > The current version of Cygwin seems to have XSLTproc as an optional
> > component, so that seems to work ok.
> >
> > I would like to take fo to pdf or LaTeX.  What is the
> > simplest way to do this
> > (simple meaning the easiest tools to install on windows).
> >
> > I seem to be fighting installation and configuration.
> > Does anyone have any sugestions.
> >
> >
> >
> 



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