Maurice Diamantini wrote:
Thank you very much, you confirm that the "DocbookInContext" from Simon Pepping is still the way to go.
beware, afaik that one adapts core macros which is to be avoided
I've no specific request, I just forward some interest by the web community to converting from docbook to pdf more or less automaticaly. I fact, my original interest come from the work of the jelix team (a MVC php Framwork) whose documentation was only online (dokuwiki). Following some user feedback, Jelix team have then generate docbook from that wiki filesss+ and make pdf file thanks to the (not maintained) db2latex tool. I look after a more uptodate tool (for further customisation) and found dblatex as mention on the (french) forum:
http://jelix.org/forums/read.php?10,2680,page=4#msg-2872
The result was that the simple command:
dblatex jelix-manual.xml
produce a "correct" (i.e. readable) jelix-manual.pdf file without any customisation (with default table of content, correct verbatim, ...) which was not the case for db2latex. But then, any customisation will be a latex style, which is more hacking than ConTeXt (I think so, but I'm sure you agree ;-)
Nevertheless, the first criterion was that it just works in simple case. If some magic command (or a simple tutorial) like :
texexec --docbook jelix-manual.xml
do some equivalent work than the above dblatex, no doubt that the ConTeXt community will increase by more than 100%!
i can probably cook up a basic docbook converter in a couple of hours but since i never run into docbook ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------