Making LFS 6.4 PDF out of XML

[Bruce Dubbs]

Martin Miehe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Because there was no PDF available at the LFS download page I am  
> trying to build the LFS book as PDF. Unfortunately I do know more  
> about XML that what I learned in the few days I am working at this task.
> 
> Until now I did the following steps:
> * adjusted BOOK/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/pdf/lfs-mixed.xsl so that
>    * breaking the scripts and rules in the appendix is possible
>    * reduced font-size of the element screen in appendix, so that width of
>      scripts is lesser than width of containing screen
> * line breaks with '\' at several commands so that width of commands
>    is lesser than width of containing screen element, necessary in:
>    * BOOK/prologue/hostreqs.xml
>    * BOOK/chapter06/coreutils.xml
>    * BOOK/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
>    * BOOK/chapter05/e2fsprogs.xml
> 
> Now the PDF ist close to perfect. According to fop's output there seem  
> to be some problems with the scripts, which do not the effect of the  
> pdf output.
> 
> But much more annoying: there remains a problem with the table in  
> BOOK/chapter06/man-db.xml. It is to huge for one page, but kept  
> together on this page. I tried to solve the problem by adding
> 
> <? dbfo keep.together="auto" ?>
> 
> below <table> . This did not work. I already had a look at  
> /BOOK/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/docbook-xsl-snapshot/fo/table.xsl but found  
> no reason why <? dbfo keep.together="auto" ?> did not work.
> 
> Yes, I know I could break this table somehow by hand but I think that  
> is not the way it should be. How do I get this table to break at the  
> end of the page?

Martin,
   I don't know the answer to your questions, but if you can send me 
(bdubbs at linuxfromscratch.org) the diffs of what you have done, I'll see what I 
can do to implement them into the -dev book.

Thanks for your efforts.

   -- Bruce