[buug] latex (pronounced Lay-tech)

[John Landahl]

On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:11 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
> Have you managed to find/develop an XML/Docbook toolchain that's stable
> enough for routine use?

I've found PassiveTeX to be quite good for general use.  I haven't done 
anything really deep with it, but so far I've been quite happy with it.  
It's an implementation of XSL:FO for LaTeX/TeX built on top of XLMTeX.  You 
could use XMLTeX directly, I suppose, but it tends to be easier going 
through XSL:FO first, I think.  And of course there tend to already be 
XML->XSL:FO transformers for the major XML grammars, especially DocBook.

The other option is JadeTeX, which handles DSSSL in TeX.  Not being very 
familiar with DSSSL, I don't have any experience with JadeTeX.  From what I 
understand, though, it may be more mature and robust than PassiveTeX, 
especially since the XSL:FO standard itself is not quite mature or robust 
at this point.

So I've found a good match for my needs (which are admittedly fairly basic) 
in PassiveTeX/XMLTeX, but as with anything, YMMV.
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