Re: [Db2latex-devel] Localization derived from Walsh styles

[James D. <j-d...@us...>]

In message <200...@vz...>
on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:12:35PM +0400, Vitaly Ostanin wrote:
> I'm trying to use db2latex-0.7 for our documentation project
> (docs.altlinux.ru)

I recommend using a more-recent DB2LaTeX version such as the daily
snapshots: <http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/snapshot>. These snapshots
contain a large number of fixes to make DB2LaTeX work better with
existing DocBook documents.

> Dir "xsl/common" contain localization files derived from original
> DocBook stylesheets but it's unmaintained. Now original styles
> is more localized for more languages.

They are not exactly unmaintained, as we make changes to them on
occasion. However, you would be correct is saying that they have not
been recently synchronised with information from Norman Walsh's DocBook
XSL stylesheets. Perhaps Ramon can look into that. Thanks for mentioning
it.

> Tools with support XML Catalogs:

Sure. We use usually use xsltproc (and sometimes Xalan)
with catalogue support.

> 1. Dependence on DocBook xsl-styles
> 2. Dependence on XML Catalogs support 
> 
> for correct localization ?

The DB2LaTeX localisation files contain more keys than Norman's
stylesheets. Thus, I think DB2LaTeX needs to use its own
localisation files.