Status on HgBook

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>
> It's not just about being ugly, it's also about getting better output
> and a better tool-chain... I just tried to compile the book and I was
> able to get HTML output. For the PDF, I got funny errors about XSLT
> stylesheets not being found and I read something about setting a Java
> class path.

I'd suggest that you don't worry about building the PDF. The FO stuff
used for that is deeply unpleasant, and all the free FO tools I've
used have been broken.

>> In other words: I'm much more comfortable with an Python tool-chain and
> produce some good-looking LaTeX code from that instead of relying on the
> weird Docbook XML stuff.

It's actually pretty easy to generate good HTML from DocBook XML. And
honestly, DocBook is actually pretty decent to write with if you give
it a chance. I've written two entire books in it, so I should know :-)