DoTeX - DocBook as LaTeX

Introduction

DocBook As LaTeX (DoTeX) is a service to format DocBook document and get PDF or PostScript documents which look like LaTeX formatted. The formatting engine used is RenderX DiType.

Constructing Documents to format with DoTeX

Specifying documentstyle

If LaTeX documentstyle isn't specified explicitly (see below - How to use) DoTeX tries to determine document's LaTeX style by the root tag of the document and by the role attribute of the root tag. The following types of LaTeX documentstyle are supported:

book, article, report, proc, slides

The table below illustrates the compiliance between DocBook document root tag and LaTeX documentstyle

documentstyle	DocBook tag	role attribute value
book	book	latex.book
report	book	latex.report
article	article	latex.article
proc	article	latex.proc
slides ^*	slides	latex.slides

* - slides root tag always means LaTeX documentstyle slides.

Images in source document

If your source document contains images, you can specify relative URLs for that images and upload the images to the service, or they should be specified by absolute URIs to be able received by DoTeX via HTTP or FTP.

Formulas

You can use LaTeX syntax to place formulas in the document. To do that, you should specify DocBook tags like this: <inlineequation>
<inlinemediaobject>
<textobject role="tex">
FORMULE_CONTENT_HERE
</textobject>
</inlinemediaobject>
</inlineequation>

How to use

At first, select file to format - dotex will display the content of the file in 'File tab. Then select LaTeX documentstyle (or leave it Auto Detect, if the document has role attribute), select output format and then click Format. DoTeX will display the log of the formatting process in 'Log' tab.

Known Limitations

LateX documentstyle letter is not implemented.
Table of Contents generation is incomplete for book, article, proc, report.
Header content layout is not properly implemented for book.