[tex-live] [debian-refcard] Help needed with xmlroff -> dblatex migration

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> [Please CC my on replies]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> > Hi Holger,
> > 
> > > My main point is/was: I don't know, how all the things like dblatex, latex,
> > > xetex, xelatex ... work together.
> > 
> > I think 
> >   dblatex produces a .tex file from the "sources"
> >   xelatex is used to translate it into a pdf
> > That's all. The problem is that dblatex is not afair in TeX Live, so not
> > many people will be able to test it. So having the (intermediate) .tex
> > file would be helpful.
> 
> So, I cannot get any further here ...
> 
> I have stripped this down to this:
> dblatex generates the tex file from a docbook source file, it uses xetex 
> backend for that.
> 
> The command used:
> dblatex --backend=xetex --texstyle=refcard.sty --xsl-user=dblatex.xsl entries-he.dbk
> 
> Based on this example
> https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2015/03/20/hebrew-with-xetex-example/
> I have generated a dblatex.xsl file, to the best of my knowledge.
> (The notation in our dblatex.xsl file is somewhat different compared with
> the example from above, so I couldn't copy-paste it directly.)
> 
> I have attached: 
> - the docbook source file ("entries-he.dbk"),
> - the style file ("refcard.sty")
> - the dblatex.xsl file
> - and the resulting tex file.

I found, that I gave the incorrect docbook source file, it has to be
the refcard-he.dbk, attached to this mail; sorry.


Holger

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