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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 1. Introduction</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="DocBook to LaTeX Publishing" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="DocBook to LaTeX Publishing" /><link rel="prev" href="bi01.html" title="Documentation" /><link rel="next" href="ch01s02.html" title="Features" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bi01.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch01s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idp1092984"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01.html#idp5540872">What about DB2LaTeX?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s02.html">Features</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s03.html">Version</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="sec-changelog.html">Change History</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s05.html">Publishing Principles</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s05.html#sec-process">Backend Drivers</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s05.html#sec-stylesheets">XSL Stylesheets</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s05.html#sec-perl-process">Python Post Processing</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s05.html#idm883848">LaTeX Style Package</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="section" title="What about DB2LaTeX?"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="idp5540872"></a>What about DB2LaTeX?</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="command"><strong>Dblatex</strong></span> started as a <a class="ulink" href="http://db2latex.sourceforge.net" target="_top">DB2LaTeX</a> clone, but since then
many things have changed and new features have been added or (hopefully)
improved. Now, the portion of shared code is small if any, and the dblatex
purpose is different from DB2LaTeX on these points:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>The project is end-user oriented, that is, it tries to hide as much as
possible the latex compiling stuff by providing a single clean script to
produce directly DVI, PostScript and PDF output.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The actual output rendering is done not only by the XSL stylesheets
transformation, but also by a dedicated LaTeX package. The goal is to allow a
deep LaTeX customisation without changing the XSL stylesheets.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Post-processing is done by Python, to make publication faster, convert
the images if needed, and do the whole compilation.</p></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bi01.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch01s02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Documentation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Features</td></tr></table></div></body></html>