Display created docbook

[Kornel Benko]

Am Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:51:15 +0200
schrieb Thibaut Cuvelier <tcuvelier at lyx.org>:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 16:42, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a patch ready to
> > > 1.) new format (pdf9) + conversion 'docbook5->pdf9'
> > >   This is using pandoc, so that one can display the docbook data
> > > 2.) A wrapper/filter around ssconvert for converting spreadsheets
> > >   to be inserted in docbook5 documents
> > >
> > > The first part should be uncontroversial.
> > > For the second there may be objections, because the wrapper is
> > > written in perl.
> >
> > That's indeed controversial. What's the justification for writing
> > that in perl when all other conversion script are in python?

The only justification is my (in)ability to write it in python.
I have no problems if someone could port it to a python script.

> > Apart from that conversion to epub seem more appropriate than pdf...
> >
> 
> PDF is useful for debugging purposes, at least (or to have an idea what the
> document could look like through standard DocBook chains, for instance if
> you are publishing a book and you have to use DocBook instead of LaTeX).
> I'd +1 having this functionality in LyX.
> 
> pandoc can also produce ePub (although I don't know if it does this well),
> it should be quite straightforward to include it too.

Yes, it is straightforward. Not much different to producing pdf9.

	Kornel
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