From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rahul Dave To: joh@gmx.net (Jochem Huhmann) Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: DocBook to LaTex? Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <200002121614.LAA02492@reno.cis.upenn.edu> References: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00058.html SGMLS.pm: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/David_Megginson/ Rahul I got this from you: > > * Jorge Godoy wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Sylvan Ravinet wrote: > > > Jochem Huhmann wrote: > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.sol.no/public/users/v/vigu/sgml/dtd/docbook/docbk2latex.pl > > > > It's no more there, yes. And I don't have a copy of it either. This > > > > script was quite primitive btw, everyone with a scriptable parser (perl, > > > > python, tcl...) and some knowlegde of DocBook and LaTeX should be able > > > > to write a script that converts a given instance of (a subset of) > > > > DocBook. > > > > > > So what would be the "design" of such a script? I can think of some > > > regexps, but maybe it's not the best way (I never manipulated any XML > > > parser) > > > > Seems that this tool (bcc) can do the job. > > I've just downloaded that and I'll try to convert some documents into > > LaTeX documents. > > > > > > http://www.multimania.com/jcalles/XML/ > > Oh dear. This is written in scheme, you need a scheme compiler (bigloo) > to get it up and running. And patience, since this is written in C++, > compiling took its time. The example scripts are a toolchain to convert > the old LinuxDoc-DTD to DocBook (the ld2db stylesheet from the newer > sgmltools does this also very fine, btw.) and then to LaTeX. Since > LinuxDoc is very simple (no tables, no graphics) the supported DocBook > is also quite simple. This surely can be extented (and bigloo comes with > a nice IDE for XEmacs, too), but all the comments in the code are in > french. I haven't even tried to understand what's going on in there. > > If I would start to code such a converter, I would use tcl, perl or > python. > > Jochem > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! >