Re: The transition from dgo

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:38 -0500, Curtis Hovey wrote:
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> We need a solid PDF generation mechanism.

Yes. Even just a script or example makefile rule would be helpful here.
I don't want to do all the research to discover this month's
favourite/less-broken way of getting PDFs from Docbook every time
someone says "Can I download this document as PDF."

>  Both U and A groups use local
> installation of FOP (a Java implementation). I used FOP to make the last
> round of user and admin docs that appear on w.g.o. PassiveTex is below
> average, but is easier to get via your distros packaging system than
> FOP. Creating a preprocessor to calculate column widths may do the trick
> for PassiveTex. I want to switch from Norman Walsh's XSLT to
> gnome-doc-utils
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