diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
index 23c226a4b4a60e1f277d6e9500b35ff33b3a52be..5a9e90a2856b071012747617be4ebe12d2e0b536 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
@@ -268,12 +268,24 @@ xslthtml-stamp: stylesheet.xsl postgres.xml
 htmlhelp: stylesheet-hh.xsl postgres.xml
 	$(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROCFLAGS) $^
 
-%-A4.fo: stylesheet-fo.xsl %.xml
+%-A4.fo.tmp: stylesheet-fo.xsl %.xml
 	$(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROCFLAGS) --stringparam paper.type A4 -o $@ $^
 
-%-US.fo: stylesheet-fo.xsl %.xml
+%-US.fo.tmp: stylesheet-fo.xsl %.xml
 	$(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROCFLAGS) --stringparam paper.type USletter -o $@ $^
 
+FOP = fop
+XMLLINT = xmllint
+
+# reformat FO output so that locations of errors are easier to find
+%.fo: %.fo.tmp
+	$(XMLLINT) --format --output $@ $^
+
+.SECONDARY: postgres-A4.fo postgres-US.fo
+
+%-fop.pdf: %.fo
+	$(FOP) -fo $< -pdf $@
+
 epub: postgres.epub
 postgres.epub: postgres.xml
 	$(DBTOEPUB) $<
@@ -391,7 +403,7 @@ clean:
 # index
 	rm -f HTML.index $(GENERATED_SGML)
 # XSLT
-	rm -f postgres.xml postgres.xmltmp htmlhelp.hhp toc.hhc index.hhk *.fo
+	rm -f postgres.xml postgres.xmltmp htmlhelp.hhp toc.hhc index.hhk *.fo *.fo.tmp
 # EPUB
 	rm -f postgres.epub
 # Texinfo
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/geqo.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/geqo.sgml
index 92276fcd766c571c40137ac65e8d166cd1b6501d..e0f8adcd6ed6901653f9fb01196b221af92ee05d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/geqo.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/geqo.sgml
@@ -1,30 +1,6 @@
 <!-- doc/src/sgml/geqo.sgml -->
 
  <chapter id="geqo">
-  <chapterinfo>
-   <author>
-    <firstname>Martin</firstname>
-    <surname>Utesch</surname>
-    <affiliation>
-     <orgname>
-      University of Mining and Technology
-     </orgname>
-     <orgdiv>
-      Institute of Automatic Control
-     </orgdiv>
-     <address>
-      <city>
-       Freiberg
-      </city>
-      <country>
-       Germany
-      </country>
-     </address>
-    </affiliation>
-   </author>
-   <date>1997-10-02</date>
-  </chapterinfo>
-
   <title>Genetic Query Optimizer</title>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
index 5bac66e9d2d53754344537d842e775af12b7a07d..5f52fd45ef81b49e5336be57d844ab6fdf6ecae8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 <!-- doc/src/sgml/nls.sgml -->
 
 <chapter id="nls">
- <chapterinfo>
-  <author>
-   <firstname>Peter</firstname>
-   <surname>Eisentraut</surname>
-  </author>
- </chapterinfo>
-
  <title>Native Language Support</title>
 
  <sect1 id="nls-translator">
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
index aafc946d1b500e83958a2e29f581d684d3b82fcd..ad26a5abbe8d82fb6159daf913a0c10fadfec79c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
@@ -6,6 +6,18 @@
 <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
 <xsl:include href="stylesheet-common.xsl" />
 
+<xsl:param name="fop1.extensions" select="1"></xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extension" select="0"></xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="toc.max.depth">3</xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="ulink.footnotes" select="1"></xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="use.extensions" select="1"></xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="variablelist.as.blocks" select="1"></xsl:param>
+
+<xsl:attribute-set name="monospace.verbatim.properties"
+                   use-attribute-sets="verbatim.properties monospace.properties">
+  <xsl:attribute name="wrap-option">wrap</xsl:attribute>
+</xsl:attribute-set>
+
 <!-- Change display of some elements -->
 
 <xsl:template match="command">