[docbook-apps] DocBook Latin support works

2021-10-25 Thread Pc Thoms
Don't know who to thank but, I inserted xml:lang="la" as follows: http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.0" xml:lang="la"> obviously Latin text, and voila, the spelling of the text checks o

Re: [docbook-apps] TOC and dialogue/drama/poetry

2020-02-17 Thread Pc Thoms
s to create a > new template in that mode for poetry. > > Bob staytonb...@sagehill.net > > On 2/17/2020 7:07 AM, Pc Thoms wrote: > > The elements dialogue/drama/poetry have an optional , but this > does not generate to the Table of Contents. Where does one start to add > this fun

[docbook-apps] TOC and dialogue/drama/poetry

2020-02-17 Thread Pc Thoms
The elements dialogue/drama/poetry have an optional , but this does not generate to the Table of Contents. Where does one start to add this functionality? Using generates to the ToC as desired, but this adds unneccesary bulk. The following is the xml I am working with: Poems Repeated Numerous Tim

[docbook-apps] index.prefer.titleabbrev affects TOC also

2019-11-02 Thread Pc Thoms
When I set the parameter index.prefer.titleabbrev to "1" the abbreviated titles are used in the Index and the Table of Contents also. Found a reply by Bob Stayton to the same issue by Robert Nagle. https://markmail.org/message/ijt4er434oeelzug?q=titleabbrev+list:org%2Eoasis-open%2Elists%2Edocbook-

Re: [docbook-apps] section "label" attribute not producing label

2019-09-25 Thread Pc Thoms
What are you using for your transformation/stylesheet? Docbook parameters allow you to turn the labels on/off. Via Oxygenxml it is quite easy once you know where to look under the parameters. You might want to switch to book as your root and use "xi:include" if you want to work with separate files.

Re: [docbook-apps] wich tool to start?

2016-08-16 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Renato: Here are some places to start http://docbook.org/ - of course http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheetDocs http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html (Must have book) 6 tools listed http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookAuthoringTools http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookTools Tutorial - a

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook Publisher - stagedir

2016-07-12 Thread Pc Thoms
eem to have those elements included. > > Regards, > Radu > > Radu Coravu > XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger > http://www.oxygenxml.com > > > On 7/12/2016 3:49 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > >> I'm using the following to Xinclude several p

[docbook-apps] DocBook Publisher - stagedir

2016-07-12 Thread Pc Thoms
I'm using the following to Xinclude several plays into one larger document, with OxygenXML 18. http://docbook.org/xml/publishers/5.1CR3/publishers.rng"; schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"; ?> http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

2016-06-21 Thread Pc Thoms
Contributions to Diocese of Algoma Report of Committee on duty of Synod This is easily corrected, by using the method discovered in the first e-mail I sent. Cheers - Paul On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > Hi Dave and Docbook-apps Company: > > In working with a le

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

2016-06-21 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Dave and Docbook-apps Company: In working with a legacy text, 1875, and it's index I entered five secondary entries, expecting an error, using the following: Index Admission to Seats in Synod Ven. Archdeacon McMurray Rev. Dr. Sullivan Rev. Dr. Stocking Wm. J. Harris W. B. Curran And to my su

Re: [docbook-apps] Line Numbering with DocBook Publisher

2016-05-25 Thread Pc Thoms
the linegroup element is already output as an fo:list-block > with 20% of the width for the speaker element. But nested fo:list-block is > not a problem. > > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@sagehill.net > > > On 5/23/2016 1:36 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > >&g

[docbook-apps] Line Numbering with DocBook Publisher

2016-05-23 Thread Pc Thoms
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AnnotateListing.html#LineNumbering I came across the above and am wonder if Line Numbering with DocBook Publisher is possible? Possible using the element, that is. With thanks Paul

Re: [docbook-apps] Set Index

2016-02-18 Thread Pc Thoms
& >> Energy Machinery Southwest Research Institute Tel: 210.522.2045 >> Email: emily.fors...@swri.org >> >> >> -Original Message- From: Bob Stayton >> [mailto:b...@sagehill.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:44 >> PM To: Forsyth, Emil

Re: [docbook-apps] Set Index

2016-02-17 Thread Pc Thoms
ate it I get > an error message. Will this work for PDF documents? > > *Thank you,* > > > > *Emily Forsyth* > > *Fluids & Machinery Engineering Department * > > *Propulsion & Energy Machinery* > > *Southwest Research Institute* > > *Tel: 210.522.204

Re: [docbook-apps] Set Index

2016-02-17 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Emily If you place the defaultComposition in the docbook xml file User Guide it will generate an index similiar to what like the following: defaultComposition, User Guide This will require searching through the text for the specific point at which to insert the . Beware of white space - especi

Re: [docbook-apps]

2016-01-20 Thread Pc Thoms
What problems? The following are a good place to start http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/ch02.html#s.glossary http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/glossary.html http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Glossaries.html On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Nico van de Water wrote: > Dear list members, > > > > Is

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexterms with emphasis and citetitle elements

2016-01-11 Thread Pc Thoms
he content of the element. > > If you want secondary and tertiary entries to also get such formatting, > you'll need to also customize > > > > > > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@sagehill.net > > > On 1/9/2016 5:02 AM, Pc Thoms wrote: >

[docbook-apps] Indexterms with emphasis and citetitle elements

2016-01-09 Thread Pc Thoms
When generating an index using 1.79.0 the and elements do not produce any italicized text in an index generated in pdf, or xhtml. Would like this to work.

[docbook-apps] Indexterms with one or more See elements

2016-01-08 Thread Pc Thoms
While working on a legacy project I found the following to be valid: EngineersInstitution EngineersNorth of England This produces an entry that appears as Engineers (see Institution) (see North of England) and usually the see would italicized in an index. However, the following is does not val

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2015-12-16 Thread Pc Thoms
uld use something like this within the > template: > >mode="label.markup"/> > > When customizing index templates, your customization layer will usually > need to incorporate the entity declarations that are used in most of the > index templates. See the top of the a

Re: [docbook-apps] Index of People (5.1)

2015-10-02 Thread Pc Thoms
heets. Cheers Paul On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > Hi Peter > > PeterFleck > Fleck, > Peter > > The above should work fine. Avoid whitespace. > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Peter Fleck > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >>

Re: [docbook-apps] Index of People (5.1)

2015-08-25 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Peter PeterFleck Fleck, Peter The above should work fine. Avoid whitespace. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Peter Fleck wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone give a starter on how to create and "*Index of People*" and "*Index > of Organizations*" in 5.1? > > I know that I can wrap an around

Re: [docbook-apps] colwidth = ? how to specify for FOP output?

2014-07-09 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Robert Here is what works for me. . . . . If you want the table to show up in the TOC or list of Tables use "table." Cheers Paul On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Robert Nagle wrote: > I'm delivering a doc for a client that has a lot of tables. Output will be > primarily PDF. Althou

Re: [docbook-apps] Continued lines in index

2013-09-27 Thread Pc Thoms
Thanks Richard for the question. I'm working on a series of books where the continuation will occur frequently. Thanks Bob for you helpful reply as always. Richard I'll be waiting for an update, as my project is rather long term. Regards Paul On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Richard Hamilton wrot

Re: [docbook-apps] making chapter titles the running header: how?

2013-09-03 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Robert The following example is given in the section you where looking at, and maybe you've already found it. *Table 13.5. Header/footer content examples* XSL-FODescription Inserts the title of the current chapter, appendix, or other component. This may be what you're looking for. Cheers -

[docbook-apps] Footnote Overflow

2013-08-19 Thread Pc Thoms
As per the attached, a footnote is overflowing at the bottom of the page, and there are two paragraphs in the footnote do not appear in the text at all on USletter. They do print to USlegal, however. *What can I do to remedy this?* It is a legacy project as you can see - a work with long paragraphs

Re: [docbook-apps] Formatting section titles in an appendix

2013-08-19 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi David Would meet your requirements? http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/simplesect.html On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:16 PM, David Goss wrote: > I'm running into a bit of difficulty formatting section titles within an > appendix, without breaking titles in chapters. I'm attempting to format > an

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-23 Thread Pc Thoms
t text, from the section title to something like a page > number, so I was asking about an example of what you want the hot text to > say instead of the section title, given that page numbers don't exist in > HTML output. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@s

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-22 Thread Pc Thoms
e. > > Dick Hamilton > --- > XML Press > XML for Technical Communicators > http://xmlpress.net > hamil...@xmlpress.net > > > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > > > A specific example I should not provide, as it is beyond my expertise, >

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-22 Thread Pc Thoms
A specific example I should not provide, as it is beyond my expertise, but I have expectations and hopes for such. I am fairly competent in xml, but not with xslt. If the locators in a DocBook formatted xml file can point to the , , , , etc., within the document, the more specific the reference be

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-18 Thread Pc Thoms
than the chapter/section title. Locators like those in pdfs generated via FO are ideal. I am aware that the index.prefer.titleabbrev can also be set to 1, or the default 0, but this is not desire-able in the documents at hand. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Pc Thoms wrote: > Thanks Jirka >

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-18 Thread Pc Thoms
Thanks Jirka Now I know where to change a parameter. I'll give that a go. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 18.7.2013 13:51, Pc Thoms wrote: > > > However, rendering to e-pub and html it is not as specific, pointing to > the > > beginning of

[docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

2013-07-18 Thread Pc Thoms
The DocBook stylesheets do a terrific rendering of an index to PDF. Just amazing! However, rendering to e-pub and html it is not as specific, pointing to the beginning of a chapter/section. Is there a way to generate an index for e-pub and html that will generate an index like the PDF output? Every

Re: [docbook-apps] Another index-related question

2013-01-21 Thread Pc Thoms
Hi Richard The following worked for me. Index Names in parentheses indicate the parents of an individual. This convention is used to differentiate between individuals with the same name. It validated and I was able to output to both html and pdf. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Richard

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Indexing.

2012-05-05 Thread PC Thoms
That would be great for me. I was working on a public domain text which had a footnotes indexed, when I encountered an error in validating the xml. On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Norman Walsh wrote: > davep writes: > >> I did made a note to for myself some time back that an > inside a > >> f

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

2012-05-05 Thread PC Thoms
Hi Dave Here is another example with quotations. This from a legacy project, which is most of my work. “Banks,” The On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, davep wrote: > On 05/05/12 12:52, PC Thoms wrote: > >> Hi Dave >> >> Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing man

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

2012-05-05 Thread PC Thoms
Hi Dave Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing manual. The Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) has a concise chapter on indexing. A free trail is available, and this manual is usually available at a library in the reference section. I have indexed books using

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexterm start and end of range produces incorrect punctuation and transform error

2012-03-13 Thread PC Thoms
Hi Dave As noted by Bob, all elements that have a range require an empty closing element, as below. Here is my code for indexing entries with a start I have this and the elements I use frequently saved in text/xml file for ease of use. Cheers

Re: [docbook-apps] Indexterm start and end of range produces incorrect punctuation and transform error

2012-03-13 Thread PC Thoms
Hi Dave Use something else besides informalfigure, eg. inf.001. When manually generating code for indexterm IDs I use the pattern I given you above. Maybe you already have. Your code is correct. IDs should begin with a letter as per your example. Hope this is helpful. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:14

Re: [docbook-apps] Embedding indexterms for fo and html

2012-03-08 Thread PC Thoms
When it comes to whitespace around index terms check out the following: http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/indexterm.singular.html *See *Whitespace around index terms A new line or whitespace before, or after, an is very likely to produce a pdf index you won't be happy with. I only know about this

[docbook-apps] mediaobject that will display as a block

2011-12-01 Thread PC Thoms
I'm hoping to keep a and on the same page in the FO output to pdf. Using Oxygenxml v13 with Saxon6.5.5 with Apache FOP. Have tried and without success as some of the flows to the next page. How can I avoid this? I have that I want to keep together on the same page when

Re: [docbook-apps] USLegal portrait printing

2011-11-30 Thread PC Thoms
ned value of "USlegal" in the DocBook stylesheet, so > your setting is defaulting to USletter. The easiest way to set the page > size to a new value is to set these two params: > > 14in > 8.5in > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@sagehill.net > >

[docbook-apps] USLegal portrait printing

2011-11-23 Thread PC Thoms
I'm attempting to transform a pdf to US legal size paper via Oxygen v 13 using Saxon6.5.5 and 1.76.1 style-sheets. If anyone can give me directions on how to do this I would appreciate. I have been able to create a transformation scenario with Oxygen Docbook PDF Legal and changed the paper.type par

[docbook-apps] aligning text

2010-06-23 Thread PC Thoms
I'm converting some older documents to docbook. Some of the paragraphs are centred, others aligned right. Is there a straight forward way to do this in docbook. In XHTML I've created a class="right", etc., and scripted a CSS file. The element has an align attribute, but this does not work with .

[docbook-apps] URI shows up in PDF, not as a foot or end note.

2010-05-13 Thread PC Thoms
Generating text to PDF via Saxon6.5.5 with oXygen 10 the URIs show up in the text. Please let me know if there is an attribute to enter so that they don't show inline in a PDF. Or must an xsl be customized to print them to notes. HTML generates great, but the PDF looks messy!

[docbook-apps] para-section-para

2010-03-25 Thread PC Thoms
While preparing an article in the following format I receive a not allowed instruction. Editor: Oxygen 10.3 http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.0"> text text * text* (This paragraph shows as not allowed. Why?) Expo

[docbook-apps] docbook v5 css with xlink

2008-08-02 Thread PC Thoms
Can anyone provide a link to docbook v5 examples using css. Version 4 examples can be found at: http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/tests/links.xml The link, as I have it, in the attached file doesn't work, css also included. Any help would be gratefully appreciated Paul htt