[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] How do you make a2x PDF output stylish?

[Jane Sandberg]

Thanks to both of you, Yamil and Rogan!  Because of your help, I was
able to start using FOP, and found the XSLT sheet that makes
everything stylish!  For future reference, it's this one:
https://github.com/rsoulliere/Evergreen_Documentation_Tools/blob/master/stylesheets/evergreen_docbook_files/evergreen_fo.xsl

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
> Jane,
>
> As far as I know, the folks that set up the documentation server also
> created some templates that at some point in the conversion process get
> called when the HTML and PDF versions are created.
>
> Additionally, the complete process behinds the scenes is to take the
> AsciiDoc and convert it to DocBook XML. Then the DocBook XML is combined
> with the aforementioned header/footer templates created by the EG community.
>
> Somewhere I have a link to a Github page with copies of older versions of
> those templates. Let em know if you want to look at them, but remember they
> are in DocBook format.
>
> Later,
> Yamil
>
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> Yamil Suarez, MCS
> Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development
>
> Stan Getz Library
> Berklee College of Music
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>
> ysuarez at berklee.edu
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>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Rogan Hamby <rhamby at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried the --fop parameter?
>>
>> warning: I am not terribly familiar a2x but use it for basic documents and
>> use that to generate the PDF
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jane Sandberg <sandbej at linnbenton.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The official docs has a really lovely PDF version with Evergreen
>>> colors and a footer that asks folks to report doc bugs in launchpad.
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> However, when I run the a2x command, I just get the run-of-the-mill
>>> dblatex style. [2, 3]
>>>
>>> How can I get the lovely Evergreen formatting?  Is that defined in a
>>> file somewhere?  Or are there more arguments I should be passing to
>>> the a2x command?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>>   -Jane
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.11/Evergreen_Documentation.pdf
>>> [2]
>>> http://docs-testing.evergreen-ils.org/docs/reorg/staffclient_sysadmin/Evergreen_Documentation.pdf
>>> [3] The command I'm running: a2x --verbose --format pdf -d book
>>> --destination-dir destination root.txt
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jane Sandberg
>>> Electronic Resources Librarian
>>> Linn-Benton Community College
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>> Equinox - Open Your Library
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Jane Sandberg
Electronic Resources Librarian
Linn-Benton Community College
sandbej at linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655
Pronouns: she/her/hers or they/them/theirs