[TriLUG] docbook & help guides

Neil Roeth neil at occamsrazor.net
Fri Aug 15 23:08:37 EDT 2003


On Aug 15, Michael Alan Dorman (mdorman at debian.org) wrote:
 > Let anyone misinterpret---I don't have anything against DSSSL; in
 > fact, I suspect I would actually prefer its listp/scheme-based syntax
 > to the XML syntax of XSL (I have written a fairly complete Dia UML
 > diagram to SQL DDL stylesheet, and would have really appreciated the
 > fingernail clippings of DSSSL to the sheer verbosity of XSL).  But
 > DSSSL has been pretty much disavowed by its creators, and, IMHO, only
 > has users at all because at the moment it represents the best docbook
 > to pdf solution on free OSes.

I also use it because the DSSSL toolchain allows me to create RTF files that
are importable to Microsoft Word, and some people require that.  Do you know
of any way to create RTF from DocBook with an XSL toolchain?

-- 
Neil Roeth



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