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Re: Docbook -> Text

To: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>, David Lloyd <lloy0076 at rebel dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook -> Text
From: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:29:07 +0100
Cc: Eric LOEW <eloew at eloew dot org>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
References: <"from lloy0076"@rebel.net.au><10108101645.aa18991@mammoth.ca.caldera.com> <20010812115541.F28636@free.fr><3B787089.85FC809A@rebel.net.au>

At 08:33 14/08/2001 -0400, Dan York wrote:
>Eric,
>
> > There isn't a direct method ?
>
>The next couple of weeks are crazy for me, but after that I am toying
>with the idea of creating a "text" series of XSLT stylesheets based
>on what Norm did with the HTML stylesheets.... as I, too, need to go
>to plain text for some things... so maybe several of us could work
>on that.

Had you thought about using the 4xt combination with XT?
I've used it successfully to get plain text, well formatted.
It will struggle with full docbook, though the principle is great.
  That way, everything is either para or list, which gets
well laid out, with good word breaking.

Regards DaveP

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References:
- Re: Docbook -> Text
  - From: Bob Stayton
- Re: Docbook -> Text
  - From: Eric LOEW
- Re: Docbook -> Text
  - From: David Lloyd
- Re: Docbook -> Text
  - From: Dan York

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