Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: docutils-latex

[Adam C. <ad...@ch...>]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 20:50, David Priest wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:30:58 +0200, Adam Chodorowski  
> <ad...@ch...> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 20:16, David Priest wrote:
> >> Out of curiousity, why so much attention to LaTeX, rather than XSL:FO?   
> >> I
> >> gotta say my XSL:FO templates are da bombe.  Is LaTeX offering something
> >> that can't be done by XSL:FO?
> >
> > With the LaTeX writer, I just have to run rst2latex and then pdflatex to
> > get a nice PDF. With the XSL:FO stuff, I don't even know where to begin.
> > BIG plus IMHO. :)
> 
> With XSL:FO, you run Docutils to produce its native XML output, then run  
> Saxon and FOP to create the PDF.  It's about the same amount of work for  
> the enduser, but skips a transformation level.

What I meant is that a nice little README/HOWTO on which tools you need
and how to use them with the XSL:FO templates would be very much
apreciated. It's not obvious to me, atleast.

Perhaps more people would use the XSL:FO templates, if they knew how.

-- 
Adam Chodorowski <ad...@ch...>

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