[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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