dblatex replacement about asciidoc-py HOT 8 CLOSED

Dblatex is a docbook toolchain, asciidoc generates the docbook for that toolchain to process, it doesn't use the toolchain itself. The convenience script a2x does allow using the dblatex toolchain, but it also supports the FOP toolchain.

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Thanks for prompt answer. So it's safe to get rid of dblatex and use FOP instead as default toolchain.

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Well, yes the FOP toolchain can generate PDF like the dblatex one, but they are of course not a direct replacement since FOP doesn't use Latex so the configuring is different, and the FOP output looks very different to the Latex output, so don't expect that you won't get complaints 😁.

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Understand, but unless dblatex become Python3 compatible, I will not have any other option.

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Note also that there may be other toolchains that handle docbook, for example I think Pandoc can convert docbook to various things. The toolchains themselves are beyond the scope of asciidoc though.

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If dblatex cannot be brought up to be python3 compatible, I would agree with changing it from the default to an option flag like FOP, and promote something that is python3 and going to remain available in fedora to be the default.

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I've also reached out to the dblatex folks to see what their plans are on if they'd be open to a python3 port https://sourceforge.net/p/dblatex/mailman/dblatex-devel/thread/CAJEhc0zzNdoVcx15M%2BSi1ALg%2BmJ29QeuNg_u9Dj2%3Dr%2Bp3NBmwA%40mail.gmail.com/#msg36758452.

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Closing this as dblatex 0.3.11 (released a few months ago) now has py3 support and is going to be available in the next versions of all distros.

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