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+dblatex (DocBook to LaTeX Publishing)
+
+Dblatex started as a DB2LaTeX 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:
+* 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.
+* 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.
+* Post-processing is done by Python, to make publication faster,
+ convert the images if needed, and do the whole compilation.
+