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diff --git a/graphics/dblatex/README b/graphics/dblatex/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ca9dc8f0a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/dblatex/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +dblatex (DocBook to LaTeX Publishing) + +Dblatex started as a DB2LaTeX clone, but since then many things have +changed and new features have been added or (hopefully) improved. Now, +the portion of shared code is small if any, and the dblatex purpose is +different from DB2LaTeX on these points: +* The project is end-user oriented, that is, it tries to hide as much + as possible the latex compiling stuff by providing a single clean + script to produce directly DVI, PostScript and PDF output. +* The actual output rendering is done not only by the XSL stylesheets + transformation, but also by a dedicated LaTeX package. The goal is to + allow a deep LaTeX customisation without changing the XSL stylesheets. +* Post-processing is done by Python, to make publication faster, + convert the images if needed, and do the whole compilation. + |