[publican-list] RHEL 6 packages for publican 2.8 and 3.0.0

[Norman Dunbar]

Hi All,

On 08/11/12 04:50, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Getting rid of FOP is a worthy goal indeed.
I know there's a lot of "hatred" for fop here, and I suppose if you have 
to maintain it, then it's most likely justified, but....

I need to create documents that will be printed out. They need to be in 
PDF format and fop does a pretty good job. (But then again, I'm not 
maintaining it - so I feel your pain!)

My documents have indices. And these have page numbers as the cross 
reference, so I get this in my printed copy:

Introduction......7
Concepts..........32
Recursion.........98

When I last tried wkhtmltopdf, I discovered that the indices were 
treated the same as the HTML (obvious really) in that the page numbers 
were replaced by section titles:

Introduction......1 Introduction
Concepts..........2 Concepts
Recursion.........8 Recursion

This makes it almost useless for a decent quality PDF document, printer 
ready, that people will read (in the bath if they are anything like me!) 
and the indexes are next to useless. On which page will I find the 
recursion section? Ah yes, see the Recursion Section. Hmmm, not 
particularly helpful.

I haven't been able to try out Publican 3 yet - it won't compile the 
build program on my Mint 13 KDE setup, but I'd love to know if the index 
problem is resolved? If it is, I'd happily try it again, otherwise, fop 
rules, however badly we think of it.

Just my £0.02.

Cheers,
Norm.

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