[kde-doc-english] KDE Doc Tool Chain
Tom Browder
tom.browder at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 21:51:40 CEST 2006
Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> > I've looked into the docbook (xsl) => pdf thing several times over the
> > years and still believe the best method is not to reinvent the wheel but
> > use Professor Knuth's wonderful TeX for the actual typesetting. That
> > means translation of docbook eventually into TeX (or LaTeX), then pdf.
...
>...it seems this is the best way to go. A maintained solution (which is what
>I'm using) is dblatex (http://dblatex.sf.net) which does precisely that.
>LaTeX error reporting does make me want to tear out my hair sometimes though...
>If you're interested in discussing this further, we should take it to
>kde-doc-english at kde.org .
Is the dblatex solution the official KDE way to produce pdf now? If so,
I would like to convince the KMyMoney team to go along.
By the way, your pdf version KMyMoney Handbook is beautiful (http://people.fruitsalad.org/phil/kde/kmymoney.pdf).
-Tom
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