[publican-list] publican/PDF/FOP support in f8?

[Murray McAllister]

Murray McAllister wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Jeff Fearn wrote:
>>
>>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>   i'm guessing i already know the answer to this, but is there any
>>>> support for PDF generation via FOP?  from what i read, the
>>>> appropriate RPMs are in rawhide and i can easily wait for f9 to
>>>> get that.  thanks.
>>> Hi Robert, version 0.33 is in testing for F8. It should allow for
>>> building PDFs with that caveat of no svg's since FOP in F8 can't
>>> handle them.
>>>
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3048
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jeff.
>>
>>   thanks.  also (and this is probably WAY off-topic), i'm interested
>> in publican since it seems to be a nicer way to (re)write a bunch of
>> my linux courseware manuals.  a few years back, i hacked up my own
>> toolchain to do pretty much what publican does now, except i added one
>> pre-processing step that saved me bunches of time.
>>
>>   since, at the time, i didn't see a nice XML editor, i typed in the
>> source by hand, but typing full docbook tags like "section" and
>> "chapter" and so on was excruciatingly tedious.  so i added a step
>> that allowed me to define my own abbreviations for common tags, like
>> "pa" for para, "ch" for chapter and so on.  then i added what was
>> essentially an identity transform that converted those tags into
>> proper docbook, and proceeded to do regular processing from there.
>> hacky, yes, but a definite time-saver.
>>
>>   and on that note, what *are* people using for actually writing their
>> docbook?  open source editors only, of course.  :-)
>>
>> rday
>> -- 
>>
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> Robert P. J. Day
>> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
>>     Have classroom, will lecture.
>>
>> http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>> ========================================================================
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am use Kate.

* I am using Kate

  I find the XML validation (you need to install the
> kdeaddons package) to be really helpful when errors occur. Also, in 
> Kate, if you go "XML -> Assign Meta DTD...", and select the 
> "/usr/share/publican/xsl/docbook.dtd.xml" file, when you begin to type 
> an element, such as "<c", it will open a drop-down list of all elements 
> starting with "c", that are currently legal to use.
> 
> I also really love jEdit - it has a lot of neat features, such as an 
> error console that parses on keystroke, so you see immediately when you 

* so you immediately see...

> make an error. I think it automatically closes tags for you when you 
> start typing "</", which is handy, if you always forgot to close certain 
> tags...
> 
> I wrote a little document a while ago on using Kate as a XML/Docbook 
> editor:
> 
> http://mdious.fedorapeople.org/kate/
> 
> That was built using publican - hope you find it useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Murray.

Time for sleep!