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User Manual

Benoît Guillon

Reviewed by : Andreas Hoenen

v0.2.10

Revision History
Revision 01	05/05/2009	B. Guillon
The manual does not include the change history anymore. The change history is now in the release note. The XSL Parameters are now described as reference entries.

Table of Contents

Documentation

1. Introduction

What about DB2LaTeX?

Change History

Publishing Principles

Backend Drivers
XSL Stylesheets
Python Post Processing
LaTeX Style Package

2. Installing the Package

Installing on Unix like Systems

Dblatex Packages
Dependencies
Installation

Installing on Windows

Dependencies
Installation

3. Using dblatex

Output Formatting Style

How it works
Adding a New Formatting Style

Figure Inclusion

Presentation
Converting on the fly
Paths Lookup

Creating Tables

Limitations
Tables without colwidth
Tables with mixed colspec
Tables with proportional and fixed colwidth
Tables with fixed colwidths
Automatic column width
Tables with morerows
Landscape tables
Smaller tables
Coloured tables

Writing Mathematics

Writing LaTeX Mathematical Equations
Writing MathML equations

Creating an Index

Writing a Bibliography

Using Bibliography Entries
Using BibTeX Databases
Natbib Citations

Document Revisions

Locale Support

Document Encoding
Babel Languages
CJK Languages
Mixing the languages

Using XRefsyle and Olinks

4. Customization

Using XSL Parameters

Setting Command line Parameters

XSL User Stylesheet

Changing the XSL parameter values
Overriding some templates

Customized LaTeX style

Reusing an existing LaTeX style
Package options
Needed packages
DocBook interface
Debugging your Style

Latex post process script

Post latex compilations

Dblatex Configuration File

Configuration File Format
Configuration Paths

Customization Precedence

A. Dblatex XSL Parameter Reference

Admonitions
Callouts
ToC/LoT/Index Generation
Processor Extensions
Automatic labelling
Meta/*Info
Reference Pages
Tables
Linking
Lists
QAndASet
Bibliography
Glossary
Miscellaneous
Graphics
Pagination and General Styles
Font Families
Localization

List of Figures

1.1. Transforming Process

List of Examples

3.1. Choosing the DB2LaTeX style
3.2. Figure inclusion
3.3. Figure conversion
3.4. Figures lookup
3.5. Equation taken from TDG
3.6. Inlined Equation
3.7. Equation in a block
3.8. Equation in a float
3.9. Equation without a title
3.10. Index Entry
3.11. A Bibliography
3.12. Bibliography using BibTeX databases
4.1. Overriding templates
4.2. Reused LaTeX style
4.3. User Manual Configuration File
4.4. Customization Precedence
A.1. Configuring with latex.hyperparam

List of Equations

3.1. Simple Formula
3.1.

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