Re: [Dblatex-users] several dblatex questions/comments and two minor patches

[Jeremy C. R. <re...@re...>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, benoit.guillon wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:35:47 +0200, Jeremy C. Reed <re...@re...> wrote:

> > 3) I don't want hyperlinks -- since this is for print. [...]
> > How can I get rid of any hyperlinks?
> 
> Well, this feature does not work anymore, and I guess that too many things
> depend on hyperref now. What is the problem in using hyperlinks and printing
> the PDF? If it is the link colors, it can be customized.

I publish print documents, such as books. Books don't have hyperlinks.

Yes, I could maybe customize, but I'd prefer not to use a hyperlink in the 
first place, so I was wondering if there was an option to turn that off.

> > 5) Why parameters callout and co ? Seems inconsistent.
> 
> What do you mean?

co.linkends.show and co.tagout instead of using callout.foo.

Not a big deal, but made it confusing as I was trying to learn the 
parameters (including undocumented).

> > 6) I see use of hyperlink and hyperref packages. I don't see the use of
> > hyperlink package documented.
> 
> There is no hyperlink package. \hyperlink is just a macro from hyperref.

Okay, sorry I accidently quickly misread \usepackage[hyperlink,article]{ 
... } (package name is in the { braces } not the [ brackets ].

> > 7) How can I change the paperwidth and paperheight via command line?
> > Or does it have to be done via custom latex style? (I see default values
> > in ./latex/style/docbook.sty.)
> 
> There is no parameter to customize the paperwidth/paperheight, and yes a 
> custom latex style is the preferred way to change such things. Tell me 
> if you have trouble with it.

Okay, I will give that a try.

Thanks again for your software.

But if anyone knows of different software I should use for generating PDFs 
ready for book production from DocBook, please let me know. I have tried a 
lot of software combinations (jade, openjade, jadetex, pdfjadetex, xmlto, 
xsltproc, passivetex) and your dblatex is working best for me (because 
doesn't use java, and does indexing and table of contents). I'd like to 
try others to compare though.

(For my own writing, I almost always use LaTeX, but some of my authors 
prefer DocBook.)