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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Best way to create a docbook book?</div>
  22       <div class="date">31st July 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>I tried to send this text to the
  24 <a href="https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/">docbook-apps
  25 mailing list at lists.oasis-open.org</a>, but it only accept messages
  26 from subscribers and rejected my post, and I completely lack the
  27 bandwidth required to subscribe to another mailing list, so instead I
  28 try to post my message here and hope my blog readers can help me
  29 out.</p>
  30
  31 <p>I am quite new to docbook processing, and am climbing a steep
  32 learning curve at the moment.</p>
  33
  34 <p>To give you some background, I am working on a Norwegian
  35 translation of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and I use
  36 docbook to handle the process.  The files to build the book are
  37 available from
  38 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.
  39 The book got around 400 pages with parts, images, footnotes, tables,
  40 index entries etc, which has proven to be a challenge for the free
  41 software docbook processors.  My build platform is Debian GNU/Linux
  42 Squeeze.</p>
  43
  44 <p>I want to build PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book, and have
  45 tried different tool chains to do the conversion from docbook to these
  46 formats.  I am currently focusing on the PDF version, and have a few
  47 problems.</p>
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  51 <li>Using dblatex, the &lt;part&gt; handling is not the way I want to,
  52    as &lt;/part&gt; do not really end the &lt;part&gt;. (See
  53    <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683166">BTS report #683166</a>), the
  54    xetex backend (needed to process UTF-8) give incorrect hyphens in
  55    index references spanning several pages (See
  56    <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682901">BTS report #682901</a>), and
  57    I am unable to get the norwegian template texts (See
  58    <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682936">BTS report #682936</a>).</li>
  59
  60 <li>Using straight xmlto fail with some latex error (See
  61    <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683163">BTS report
  62    #683163</a>).</li>
  63
  64 <li>Using xmlto with the fop backend fail to handle images (do not
  65    show up in the PDF), fail to handle a long footnote (overlap
  66    footnote and text body, see
  67    <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683197">BTS report #683197</a>), and
  68    fail to create a correct index (some lack page ref, and the page
  69    refs listed are not right).</li>
  70
  71 <li>Using xmlto with the dblatex backend behave like dblatex.</li>
  72
  73 <li>Using docbook-xls with xsltproc + fop have the same footnote and
  74    index problems the xmlto + fop processing.</li>
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  77
  78 <p>So I wonder, what would be the best way to create the PDF version
  79 of this book?  Are some of the bugs found above solved in new or
  80 experimental versions of some docbook tool chain?</p>
  81
  82 <p>What about HTML and EPUB versions?</p>
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  85       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.</div>
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