![]() ![]() I'd be happy to resort to a professional in this area if they could fix my doc-generation process for me but I haven't found any we could afford the couple of times I looked. It clearly is possible as O'Reilly's books have working indexes and look OK and I believe they use this technology. I've tried quite hard and failed to get to the bottom of it in the time available. this wouldn't matter too much except that its _really_ hard to fix - you need a deep and loving understanding of TeX and scheme and DTDs and how it all fits together. I have yet to get both at once.Īs others have remarked the layout of the generated PDF leaves plenty of room for improvement too - tables and titles are often orphaned for example. Another major annoyance is that if I want the pictures to appear I have to go via DVI but then I lose the internal PDF links in the contents. The biggest problem is that indexing works fine in HTML but I can't get it to work properly in PDF. I use it for producing books in HTML and PDF form at the same time, and it also allows me to generate several slightly different versions from the same source. I think the concept is marvellous but the actuality is less good. I too have struggled with the joys of docbook-SGML and the conversion toolchain. Posted 12:32 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) Conglomerate is headed in the rightĭirection we're looking forward to the next release. But none of this should detract from the fact that theĬonglomerate developers have made substantial progress toward the creation Way to join paragraphs, the ability to read and fix not-quite-perfectįiles, entity definitions, and some sort of way to quickly see whatįormatted output would look like. There is no shortage of features that this tool still needs: undo, an easy The tool displays internal comments in a highlighted form, but does notĪppear to provide a way to add or edit comments. , it simply indicates that the tag is present. So, for example, rather than italicizing text marked Conglomerate does not, ofĬourse, change the presentation of the text to reflect this sort of However, a whole new menu with various types of low-level markup Impressive array of new elements (86 of them) which can be added as Or hidden at will, providing a sort of zoom feature.Īt the structural element level, the right mouse button yields an Instead, the document is presented as a set of nested boxes showing, onceĪgain, how things are structured. Structure of the document, in the usual tree presentation. To that end, the window (see the screen shot on Looking at a document in DocBook will not tell you much about how it willĪppear in printed (or web) form, but it is full of information on how theĭocument goes together. True to the basic premise of DocBook, Conglomerate is all about structure. It does, however, work well enough to give a good It is missing fundamental features, such as an Tool spews out an unending series of Gtk warnings, crashes occasionally,Īnd is generally slow. ) should be terminated in some situations. –), and thereĪre differences of opinion on how certain types of tag (such as Conglomerateĭoes not recognize common entities (e.g. (with a text editor) before Conglomerate would accept it. Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition) required significant editing ![]() What resulted was a tool that shows some serious promise, but which is not Other hand, version 0.70 configured, built, and installed on a Red Hat ![]() Sid proved doomed to failure the maze of dependencies proved too twisted,Īnd the packaged version in experimental had not been updated. For Conglomerate, an attempted install on Debian The first challenge with bleeding-edge software, of course, is getting it So Conglomerate seemed worth checking out. Particularly aimed at DocBook editing, but should be able to handleįor authors working in DocBook, a nice editor would be worth a great deal. Which is, of course, in DocBook format, was more than usually interested inĬongomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. Your editor, who is currently in the process of updating a substantial book Unfortunately, given the current state of the tools available, manipulatingĭocBook directly with a text editor is often the only option available. Is best used as the output of a higher-level tool, rather than created To track the current state of the document. PostScript, DocBook requires that the author maintain a deep stack in mind ![]() Structure of the language without thinking about how a document will beĪnybody who has had to create a serious work in full frontal DocBook knows Other markup language, DocBook forces the author to concentrate on the The standard is well developed and highly expressive.Īnd DocBook, of course, is all about structure. DocBook, asĪn SGML and XML standard, is compliant with as many buzzwords as anybodyĬould wish for. As the format of choice for free (and non-free) documentation.
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