Display created docbook

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Mon Sep 28 14:41:45 UTC 2020


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?

Apart from that conversion to epub seem more appropriate than pdf...

Pavel


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