Uttered Mark Johnson <mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:
I could volunteer as a "Helper" who assists people in getting a working docbook authoring setup.
Could you start this by correcting the fedora-docs/example-tutorial?
The current CVS content gives a very poor PDF rendering,
This is a processing/stylesheet issue, rather than an authoring environment problem.
I haven't even checked: is the pdf output generated from XSL or DSSSL stylesheets. If XSL, the fo -> pdf engine is likely passivetex or FOP. I dunno. Unfortunately, this toolchain is known to have some major deficiencies.
I wish I had the time to work on the toolchain (esp the stylesheets), but I simply don't have the time now. Maybe in a few months. FWIW, I really enjoy working on the toolchain stuff, but I'm already overloaded.
OTOH, I can get someone set up w/ Emacs & DocBook relatively quickly, as I've done it many times.
Sorry I can't help w/ the pdf stuff right now.
I'd perfer to see "example-tutorial" contain the actual template that will be used for Fedora docs. Provide us with the boilerplate and we then DOCBOOK by example.
I'll take a look at the "example-tutorial" and see if I can meaningfully contribute to a template.
Cheers, Mark
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