From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sylvan Ravinet To: 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: <38A176A0.C174218B@ravinet.com> References: <7666w7iqck.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> <200002021617.LAA32411@reno.cis.upenn.edu> <38A0A946.404D553E@ravinet.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00053.html 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) >And I'm quite sure that a lot of people have written such > throw-away scripts. Then people please tell us about - or throw us - yours! :-) >The hard part is covering *all* DocBook markup in a > meaningful way and building LaTeX constructs from this which make > typographically sense. But I would like to see at least a extensible > framework to do such a conversion too. I can spend some little time on this, if we and others wanna join. Jade and JadeTex are definitely not my cup of tea... Regards, -Sylvan -- ________________________________________ Sylvan Ravinet - Contact information: http://www.ravinet.com/contact-info.html