RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: need help with DocBook customization

[Jens Emmerich <Jens dot Emmerich at encorus-le dot com>]

Hi all,

as far as I see, no backend was mentioned.

You might consider importing jade mif 
output into FrameMaker for printing/pdf purposes
if you already have such "legacy tools".
Sometimes you can even get acceptable
results with rtf and word (with even more
pitfalls though).

After importing you can postprocess the
text to some extent by hand.

I didn't take the time to fiddle with PassiveTeX
long enaugh. Simple painless out-of-the-box table
rendering (at the cost of some quality) is probably
not the strength of most TeX macro packages.
But, that's no hands-on judgement on PassiveTeX.

Jens

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yann Dirson [mailto:ydirson@fr.alcove.com]
> Sent: Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2001 11:17
> To: Ian Castle
> Cc: Arun K.; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: need help with DocBook customization
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:34:43AM +0000, Ian Castle wrote:
> > > 1. 
> > > Insert the company logo in the bottom of every page along 
> with the page number. 
> > >   This is akin to a footer in a word processor, which 
> repeats the logo and the 
> > > page number.
> > 
> > jade only supports the simple-page-sequence, which only 
> allows a single
> > line in the header/footer. If you try to stick a logo in 
> you run into
> > problems... text on the main page becomes out of whack - esp. with
> > things like tables.
> 
> No, header/footers allow any inline content, and that may include
> inlined images.  I have even written a stylesheet that puts an EPS in
> the left margin, by putting a page-height image in the left-header,
> and that caused no problem at all to jadetex.
> 
> OTOH, non-inline things (eg. tables, paragraphs) do cause problems.

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