DOCBOOK-APPS: Solved problems with rules above footers ...

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, Well, I solved my problems with rules above the footers ... Blush, you need a 'lenght: ' in a (make rule ...) if you want the rule to reliably print. I don't know why, but JadeTex would print out the full hrule, even though Length was zero, or would print out two half rules or something, ex

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Aaargh, text with {...} causes pdfjadetex to blow up...

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 08:38 PM 4/22/01 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: [Sebastian's coding suggestions deleted in the interests of brevity ... ] OK, I have a simple fix for the moment ... Run sed over the .tex output and convert all >> to >{>} and all << to <{<} and it works ... Regards --- Richard Sharpe, [E

DOCBOOK-APPS:

2001-04-23 Thread Vladimir Blagojevic
Hi, We are trying to combine structure and semantics of a multiline xterm/dos output, at the same time thinking of an html ouput appearance. So far we used computeroutput nested within literallayout element, worked nicely. However, we are now trying to produce an output (using css sheets) that

DOCBOOK-APPS: Rules over headers and footers etc ...

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I was looking again at the issue of rules over headers and footers ... I loose half my rule (the RH half) over my footer if a table starts just before the footer (even if TeX has to move the table to the next page). I was wondering if this had to do with the fact that the table code does a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: qandaentry/question id

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Wiedmann
Nik Clayton wrote on 010423 22:34 +0100: ... > Create a stylesheet customisation layer based off Norm's stylesheets, > and override the generate-anchor function to use the question numbers > instead. > > For example, take a look at > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/share/sgml/fr

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: qandaentry/question id

2001-04-23 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:57:02PM +0200, Michael Wiedmann wrote: > Carsten Wartmann pointed me to a problem in the generated HTML version > of the "DocBook DSSSL FAQ": > > All links for s were pointing to "#.QQ" because of > missing id's for every . After supplying every question with a > 'id' a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: qandaentry/question id

2001-04-23 Thread Jirka Kosek
Michael Wiedmann wrote: > All links for s were pointing to "#.QQ" because of > missing id's for every . After supplying every question with a > 'id' attribute the links are correct (pointing e.g. to '#H1'). > > Is there a more or less automatic procedure to generate the id's > instead of doing t

DOCBOOK-APPS: qandaentry/question id

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Wiedmann
Carsten Wartmann pointed me to a problem in the generated HTML version of the "DocBook DSSSL FAQ": All links for s were pointing to "#.QQ" because of missing id's for every . After supplying every question with a 'id' attribute the links are correct (pointing e.g. to '#H1'). Is there a more or l

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Including a DocBook document in aDocBookdocument

2001-04-23 Thread Jirka Kosek
David Cramer wrote: > Suppose you are working on a book with chapters that are file entities > in a master book file. You can use wrappers, as Jirka explains, to > validate or process the individual chapters, but to edit one of those > chapters with the help that tools like emacs and XMetaL provi

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Examples

2001-04-23 Thread KRUMPOLEC Martin
Hi folks, Thank you all for references to DocBook examples, I'll take a look at them and maybe learn from them :-) Martin -- Martin Krumpolec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the sin

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Examples

2001-04-23 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I would like to add to this list: The PostgreSQL manual which comes with the PostgreSQL 7.1 source code. The source is available from http://www.postgresql.org (or one of the mirrors). I consider it valuable since it consists of a set of books, thus giving you an example of how to create a l

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook DSSSL FAQ

2001-04-23 Thread Dan York
Michael, > > Anybody who wants to contribute to the FAQ or has suggestions how to > > do it in another way, is invited to contact me privately or discuss it > > on this list. FYI, I'll be glad to contribute to the FAQ and I'll send you some comments privately based on some of the problems I've

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Examples

2001-04-23 Thread Dan York
Martin, > Please can you point me to some more complex DocBook examples > e.g. for open source software ? Our (e-smith) user manual (done as a DocBook 'book) is available in DocBook SGML as well as HTML and PDF at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/ We have several HOWTO documents av

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: sgml-parent-document

2001-04-23 Thread Kunath, Marcel
I did have the local variables in the entity documents but I had it at the _start_ of the files. Of course it would work when I created the file because the start of the file is also the end of the file without any content present. Once content was created it would not work anymore. Thanks for t

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Different margins for recto and verso pagesforbinding/spine

2001-04-23 Thread Juan R. Migoya
Yes: Use "two-page" and make "twopages" true by default in Jadetex. You did'nt need to do so before, but it seems that you do need to hack jadetex. Regards, Juan R. Migoya TEAM S.L. Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to use different margins for recto and verso pages so >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Including a DocBook document in aDocBook document

2001-04-23 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "DC" == David Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DC> Suppose you are working on a book with chapters that are file DC> entities in a master book file. You can use wrappers, as Jirka DC> explains, to validate or process the individual chapters, but to DC> edit one of those ch

DOCBOOK-APPS: Different margins for recto and verso pages forbinding/spine

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, Has anyone been able to use different margins for recto and verso pages so that you can account for the binding of a document? Regards --- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com) Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourse

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Including a DocBook document in aDocBook document

2001-04-23 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 06:25:32PM -0500, David Cramer wrote: > Is there a way around this? For example, is there a way to let emacs or > XMetaL know that a document gets its document type declaration from > another document? Put this at the end of the file: Tim. */ PGP signature

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Including a DocBook document in a DocBookdocument

2001-04-23 Thread David Cramer
This thread is from the Docbook mailing list, but my follow-up question is taking it in a direction more appropriate for Docbook-apps, so I'm posting it here. Suppose you are working on a book with chapters that are file entities in a master book file. You can use wrappers, as Jirka explains, to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Itemized list item with multiple paras causes toomuch space

2001-04-23 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | It seems that with DSSSL, an itemized list that contains a where | the has multiple entries will cause too much space | between that and the next. Looks that way. Sebastian, here's the .tex file and the .dvi that I get. Suggestions?

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Examples

2001-04-23 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:59:12PM +0200, KRUMPOLEC Martin wrote: > Please can you point me to some more complex DocBook examples > e.g. for open source software ? All the FreeBSD documentation is in DocBook. See a list of the docs at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html You can see the s

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Aaargh, text with {...} causes pdfjadetex to blow up...

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
> Here is what OpenJade produces by the way of TeX: > > >{1}\def\KeepWithNext% > >{1}}\{, ...\}\def\HeadingText{% > >\, ...\}% > >\endHeadPar{}\endNode{}\Node% I have not tested this, but look at the code in TeXFotBuilder.cxx for void TeXFOTBuilder::characters(const Char *s, size_t n)

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Jadetex - Page numbers: Roman, Arabic - Confused

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
looks like a fair diagnosis of me not doing the whole job in jadetex of page number formatting. i plead guilty. expect jadetex 3.7 shortly. does \def\insertPageNumber#1{#1% \csname PageNumbering@\PageNumberFormat\endcsname\c@page} do what you expect? sebastian -

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A perspective on DocBook and DSSSL

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Richard Sharpe writes: > I have managed to get DocBook/DSSSL to do a lot of the things I want, and > wonder if XSLT or other approaches will be better for me? ... > I have separate title pages for each chapter/section with a black block > with a white section number on it, with branding graphi

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: indexing for print with DSSSL / OpenJade / JadeTex

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Deborah Greenberg Lidl writes: > - What do I need to do to make entries that reference zones show a > page number in the printed index? tell me precisely what it has in the .tex file at the point where the page number should be printed sebastian

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Aaargh, text with {...} causes pdfjadetex to blow up...

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
camille writes: > > Try '{, ...}' come come, Camille. we all know that everything is turned to Unicode internally, what you put in the input is neither here nor there! sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this elist sen