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Build Scripts NG for Debian Installer Manual
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The development of the db2latex solution has completely stalled and
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therefore been deleted from the repository. The last version is still
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available from:
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svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/tags/manual/20060102
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NG == 'new-generation'
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The NG scripts are the extremely experimental version of the original
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build scripts for the Debian Installer Manual.
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The main purpose for NG is to be able to generate print-ready
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documentation in non-latin-based languages, like Russian, Japanese,
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Greek etc. The ultimate goal could be creating a common base for
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generating good-looking print documentation from DocBook using only free
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(as in 'DFSG-free') software.
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WARNING:
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THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. USE IT ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
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The main change consists in scrapping OpenJade and JadeTeX and moving to
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using DB2LaTeX, which should be a more flexible solution anyway. Other
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possible solutions like XSL:FO are not yet feasible, as all the
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renderers are either proprietary or written in Java.
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The necessary parts of the package are:
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- build_ng.sh
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- buildone_ng.sh
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- templates/driver.xsl.template
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- stylesheets/style-pdf.xsl
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- stylesheets/lang-drivers/
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- stylesheets/db2latex/
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The last directory contains the current db2latex distribution. The main
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reason for putting it here is the need to implement some features not
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yet available through the upstream version. As soon as they are stable,
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they will eventually get integrated into the main db2latex package and
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removed from the SVN.
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Currently, not everything works as expected. The biggest problem is
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getting the tables right - current db2latex does not support the
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morerows property, which is actually quite useful. A patch needs to get
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written to support that, but I currently lack the necessary time to
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learn XSL to the extend needed and implement the changes. Thus, the
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project is currently in pre-alpha state, so don't expect usable results
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right now.
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Nikolai Prokoschenko (nikolai at prokoschenko dot de)
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