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Re: [docbook-apps] pdf output


Jason,

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On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 00:01 US/Eastern, Jason Lewis wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.


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Thanks for the tips. I'll give both a go. I was really looking for a more out of the box approach though. Is there somewhere one can find a list of the shortcommings and perhaps workarounds for them?

I don't think there's any single central location for a list of shortcomings or workarounds. I depended rather heavily on Bob Stayton's Docbook XSL Guide (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/) and Dave Pawson's XSL FAQs at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html


I would note that using Docbook does not supply an "out of the box approach" - better be ready to do some customization ;)

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> It should also be noted that it is possible to avoid the use of tables
for many cases in FO-generated output, as FO provides several other formatting options for cases that would require a table in HTML, so you may want to investigate using FO block-level formatting (of things such as variablelist for example) to see if that would meet your needs in this case.

One of the things I want to do is have a block of text on the left, and an image on the right of the page.



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I tried to do it didn't really work with the PassiveTex PDF output.

Can acheive the same thing without the use of tables?

Without trying it, I wouldn't know the exact markup I would use to do this, but it should also be possible to accomplish this using a simple two-column table - do you have source I can look at?


- JohnK


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