I have dropped back to using TeX for the time being. When I get my new computer
stable I will try again.
Do other people agree that Saxon and FOP (with the appriate Docbook DTD
and Style Sheets) is a usable and fairly robust system?
On 8 Aug 2002 at 9:02, fyl2xp1 wrote:
> I have personally found this toolchain to be the most non-broken out
> of those I have tried. With the exception that I am not using Cygwin.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair)" <>
> To: <>; <>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:28 PM
> Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I use lots of different tools in a cygwin environment to generate output
> from DocBook XML source.
>
> It seems to me that if you have Java 1.4, cygwin and emacs already
> configured then you are probably very well on your way to a working cygwin
> config. I'm surprised that Markus' instructions "confound matters" - the
> tools he suggests seem to be the ones you are using already.
>
> Since you don't seem to have a specific problem to answer, let me just
> assure you that cygwin is a perfectly usable DocBook authoring environment.
> My current (ie default) preferences for tools are:
>
> - Java Runtime Environment 1.4.0
> - latest (I forget which version) cygwin and tools
> - Saxon 6.5.2
> - FOP 0.20.4
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:40 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Outline for a Windows Tool Chain?
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to get started with DocBook on Windows XP.
> > I've decided that I should probably use XML DocBook, but I am also
> > looking for the easiest way to get started.
> >
> > If there was an install program that installed the needed
> > tools, I would use that.
> >
> > I've been using Markus Hoenicka's instructions, but I have already
> > set up some tools (Java 1.4, CygWin and Emacs) for my other
> > development.
> > This seems to confound matters.
> >
> > All of the different tools that are listed in Markus's
> > directions seem to
> > be getting in my way.
> >
> > The current version of Cygwin seems to have XSLTproc as an optional
> > component, so that seems to work ok.
> >
> > I would like to take fo to pdf or LaTeX. What is the
> > simplest way to do this
> > (simple meaning the easiest tools to install on windows).
> >
> > I seem to be fighting installation and configuration.
> > Does anyone have any sugestions.
> >
> >
> >
>
