[OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

you should be able to process the docbook pdf output with pdfpages in
latex to get whatever typesetting you appear to need.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:00:45 -0500
Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:

> Probably. I would be surprised if you couldn't do what you need. you 
> would need the proper backend and stylesheet. I don't know enough 
> docbook to say for certain.
> 
> dblatex is a Docbook backend that converts docbook to latex. I suppose 
> that you could set the paper size in docbook, convert to latex, and  set 
> the quarto paper size in latex to get the proper orientations.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On 12/23/2011 11:11 AM, Ted Creedon wrote:
> > Does any docbook conversion support typesetting or am I back to latex?
> >
> > I meant quarto, I have binding&  shearing although I feel like Ben Franklin
> > sometimes.
> >
> > The handbook is quite handy.
> >
> > Tedc
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR<
> > chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>  wrote:
> >
> >> i would hazard that content is more important than 'ease of use'.  it
> >> really doesnt matter if you can carry the manual with you if it doesnt
> >> provide any useful help.
> >>
> >> there is nothing to prevent the current docbook from being rendered
> >> into "quarto" (i suspect you meant folio since quarto would be hard to
> >> use without cutting and binding). you could just do it by simply
> >> post-processing the .pdf with pdfnup.  if you feel there is something
> >> specific missing, please open a bug.  i know we are currently missing
> >> an index for the manual pages -- it got lost in the conversion.
> >>
> >> we also have .epub and .mobi (kindle) versions of the manuals available
> >> (generated from the same docbook/pod that is generating the .pdf
> >> and .html) for those that have moved beyond the whole dead trees thing.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:51:39 -0800
> >> Ted Creedon<tcreedon@easystreet.net>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Its not the docs content, just the formatting and ease of use.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Jeffrey Altman<
> >>> jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 12/22/2011 8:54 PM, David Boyes wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 1. Recreated the IBM format including hyperlinks, appendix,
> >> permuted
> >>>>>>> index,
> >>>>>>> Etc
> >>>>> I have the original doc tools used to create the IBM docs, and the
> >>>> ability
> >>>>> to produce and translate the .boo files. These tools can
> >> automagically do
> >>>>> the above if asked.
> >>>> All of our documentation is now in Docbook.  They include hyperlinks,
> >>>> the appendix, index, etc.  The original IBM docs are of little interest
> >>>> in 2011.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeffrey Altman
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> 
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