[wplug] OT maybe: Formatting Object Processors

[Eric Cooper]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:41:55PM -0400, Hagbard Celine wrote:
> I'm looking at writing and publishing a pamphlet, of sorts.  PDF
> comes to mind as a distribution format, but I can't seem to find an
> appropriate formatting object processor.
> 
> Might anyone be able to point me to an open-source fop that doesn't rely on a
> closed-source environment (Saxon is out, e.g., for its reliance on Java).

There are a couple of packages like passivetex and db2latex-xsl that
appear to process DocBook or other XML documents using tex and latex,
but I don't have any first-hand experience with them.

I do use latex directly, though.  It produces excellent PDF output
(via pdflatex).

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