On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 16:42, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > 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... >
PDF is useful for debugging purposes, at least (or to have an idea what the document could look like through standard DocBook chains, for instance if you are publishing a book and you have to use DocBook instead of LaTeX). I'd +1 having this functionality in LyX. pandoc can also produce ePub (although I don't know if it does this well), it should be quite straightforward to include it too.
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