[xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?

[Jeff Beal]

It would be nice if there were a little more variety than is offered by the
standard stylesheets.  There are so many interesting page layouts out there,
it would be nice to have an entire library of stylesheet packages to
generate any of several page layouts for DocBook.  (Maybe in a few more
years.)  The trick, though, is the huge number of elements in DocBook.  Did
you give any thought to importing selected portions of the DocBook
stylesheets in your work?  I would imagine, for example, that you could
import inline.xsl and block.xsl and instantly add support for several dozen
elements.

Jeff

(BTW, your PDF does look quite nice.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dawid Weiss [mailto:Dawid.Weiss at cs.put.poznan.pl]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:58 PM
> To: Jeff Beal
> Subject: Re[2]: [xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks  Jeff  -  I  looked  at the projects you mentioned. They indeed
> provide  simple  customizations  over  the default set of stylesheets.
> Don't  get  me wrong - I think the default stylesheets look o.k., just
> like  LaTeX's  stylesheets  are hard to beat. I was simply looking for
> variety...  I  mean  -  docbook  is  a  set  of  tags  that  at  least
> theoretically should be easy to customize into whatever people can
> think of, right? In reality all the processed documents I see look
> pretty much the same (a slightly different flavor of the default
> stylesheet). We tried to put together a totally different set of
> stylesheets using hard-coded customization in the default docbook
> stylesheets. The result was visually appealing (at least to some), but
> FAR from exhausing the full set of Docbook elements. The conclusion
> being: it is extremely difficult to do something that would differ
> from the default set of stylesheets.
> 
> You can see our version of processed customized docbook at:
> 
> http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/carrot/site/publications/os
> inski-2003-lingo.pdf
> (it is a large file - over 4.5MB).
> 
> Dawid
> 
> JB> Would you accept customizations of the generic docbook 
> stylesheets?  You can
> JB> probably get those if you ask on docbook-apps.  (I know 
> that I've put a
> JB> customization or two up on the DocBook Wiki.)  There are 
> also a few larger
> JB> projects (e.g., Linux Documentation Project, Gnome, and 
> KDE) that use
> JB> DocBook, and they may have something if you contact them directly.
> 
> JB> Jeff Beal
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dawid Weiss [mailto:Dawid.Weiss at cs.put.poznan.pl]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:56 AM
> >> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> >> Subject: [xep-support] docbook-fo stylesheets library?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >> I'm  interested if anybody has heard about, or seen, or 
> >> possibly has access
> >> to,  a  set  of  docbook  stylesheets (XSLT) that would 
> >> transform then into
> >> XSL:FO.   I   am   looking  for  something  different  than  
> >> the  official
> >> Docbook-xsl:fo stylesheets distributed with Docbook, of course.
> >> 
> >> We  used to modify the generic docbook stylesheets to suit 
> >> our needs and it
> >> worked  quite well, but I'm sure there are other stylesheets 
> >> out there I am
> >> not aware of.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for any pointers.
> >> Dawid
> >> 
> >> 
> >> _______________________
> >> Dawid Weiss, http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss
> >> Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Poznan 
> UT, Poland
> >> 
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