Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl-fo and professional publishing From: "Liam R E Quin liam@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:48:33 -0000 |
On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 13:10 +0000, jfrm.maurel@xxxxxxxxx jfrm.maurel@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder whether xml + xsl + xsl-fo is a current practise in > professional publishing for technical books at least in Europe. To give a counterpoint to Eliot's response, XSL-FO is very, very widely used in professional publishing; the largest publishers use XSL-FO (and in some cases XHTML + CSS) for most of their fiction and mainstream texts. There are relatively few publishers using it, but between them they produce most of the books you see - although there's much more diversity in Europe than in the USA in that regard. The reasons are (1) they need to produce lots of books that look similar; (2) they need to produce ebooks in XHTML, not just PDF (e.g. for Kindle); (3) they need to minimise hand-work. Viable alternatives for a single book include Scribus (open source), XHTML + CSS (but the formatters that are good enough are expensive and for technical work there are severe limitations; however, that's what O'Reilly is now doing), Adobe InDesign or Framemaker, and many other tools. It's *possible* to use MS Word, but you need a lot of discipline, and at the end of the process making an ebook will be a pain although there are products to help. There's even at least one course taught on using XSL-FO for publishers, at the Stuttgart media centre. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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