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Re: yodl discontinued.

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From: James Devenish <j-devenish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: yodl discontinued.
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:58:28 +0800
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In message <23603.1078142069@xxxxxxx>
on Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:54:29AM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> As long as we can get info, I think that's good enough.  If makeinfo
> produces DocBook output, is the reverse true?  I don't think we need
> texinfo as such since we can get PDF another way.
> 
> (I would say, however, that neither of the obvious ways of turning
> FO --- the intermediate output stage, akin to DVI --- into PDF is
> entirely satisfactory.  Either you need a full Java set up or a
> fairly particular TeX set up.

It is possible to get from DocBook XML to PDF via LaTeX without going
through FO (requires plain old teTeX, but does not require Java unless
you hit xsltproc bugs). I don't know about DocBook-to-info, though.

References:
- Re: yodl discontinued.
  - From: Oliver Kiddle
- Re: yodl discontinued.
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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