DOCBOOK-APPS: instant(1), and collapsing white space

2001-07-03 Thread Nik Clayton
Anyone here still using instant(1)? I'm writing a transpec to convert DocBook to the doc *roff macro package. For those not familiar with this package, it's an alternative for writing man pages in *roff that concentrate on semantic markup where possible. .Pa for paths, .Ev for environment varia

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Why do some entities need () around them ...

2001-07-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Richard Sharpe writes: > Why does a name like $xyz$, when being defined, need () around it .. > > Ie > > (define ($object-titles-after$) (list (...) (...) ...)) > > 'cause (define $object-titles-after$ ...) does not work! Because the $xyz$ things are (by convention) functions, not scalars.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controloverwhere things go

2001-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
David Cramer writes: > Using Norm's stylesheets, in param.xsl/your customization layer, do: > > > background-image: > url(http://pathto/images/draft.gif); > background-attachment: fixed; margin-left: 3.5em; thats cheating, putting in a graphic! background images would work in XSL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controloverwhere things go

2001-07-03 Thread David Cramer
Richard Sharpe writes: > For example, I might want to place the word Preliminary diagonally > across the back of every page in outline form, with the primary text > appearing in front of it. Using Norm's stylesheets, in param.xsl/your customization layer, do: background-image: url(http

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: linenumbering and callouts

2001-07-03 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:47 PM 7/3/01, camille wrote: >Hi all, > >Xalan Version 1.2.2, XML4J Version Xerces 1.2.2 >docbook-style-xsl-1.40 > >I am unable to get linenumbering or callouts even with: > > 1 > 1> Oh Dear, do we need linenumbering.extension set in order to get callouts? Is that why my unicode callout

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controlover where things go

2001-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Richard Sharpe writes: > For example, I might want to place the word Preliminary diagonally > across the back of every page in outline form, with the primary text > appearing in front of it. I dont regard that as part of styleheets. its more like cropmarks - you would add them to a styleshee

DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine control overwhere things go

2001-07-03 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, One of the things I think I need to be able to do in stylesheets is to place objects at arbitrary places on a page, and it seems that DSSSL and XSL(T) don't give me that level of control. For example, I might want to place the word Preliminary diagonally across the back of every page in o

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to package.html

2001-07-03 Thread David Cramer
Hi there, Does anybody know of a publically available customization layer to Norm's stylesheets that is geared to making a docbook document into a package.html file for Javadoc? For example, it would suppress the title, etc. since Javadoc expects the document to start with a sentence after ( and )

DOCBOOK-APPS: linenumbering and callouts

2001-07-03 Thread camille
Hi all, Xalan Version 1.2.2, XML4J Version Xerces 1.2.2 docbook-style-xsl-1.40 I am unable to get linenumbering or callouts even with: 1 1> Am I missing something? Thanks, Camille. P.S. If using Saxon 6.3 I get --- XRef to nonexistent id: cvs Error: no ID fo

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Link Annotations can't be nested from pdfjadetex

2001-07-03 Thread Richard Sharpe
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > Richard Sharpe writes: > > Damn, > > > > Now that I have installed JadeTex 3.7 and DSSSL 1.70, I am getting the > > above message from pdfjadetex ... > > does it work, nonetheless? Oh yes, it works, once I got rid of the LOT. Before I got rid of the LOT, pdfjadet

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Link Annotations can't be nested from pdfjadetex

2001-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Richard Sharpe writes: > Damn, > > Now that I have installed JadeTex 3.7 and DSSSL 1.70, I am getting the > above message from pdfjadetex ... does it work, nonetheless? > > It doesn't give me enough info either to tell where the problem is. it means a link inside a link sebastian

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex.cfg Contents on Title Page?

2001-07-03 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Holger Rauch writes: > Why are the contents of my jadetex.cfg file copied to the title page of my > generated book? cos they are not a TeX command. bracket that lot inside \hypersetup{ } sebastian