Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-30 Thread Laura Stewart
I posted a patch to Derby 1980. The Web page updates are ready for your review. -- Laura Stewart

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-30 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: I posted a patch to Derby 1980. The Web page updates are ready for your review. Hi, Laura, Good job! Just one detail guidelines.xml didn't make it into the patch. derby1980_1.stat shows a question mark for that file: ?

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-30 Thread Laura Stewart
On 10/30/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one detail guidelines.xml didn't make it into the patch. derby1980_1.stat shows a question mark for that file: Also, you only need to svn diff the src tree, like this from the trunk directory: svn diff src your_file.diff Oh

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-27 Thread Laura Stewart
I have inserted a table into one of the xml documents but now I am getting some errors when I try forrest site that indicate that some attributed (ALIGN and VALGN) are not declared. Is there a list of declared attributes that I can see, so that I know what is valid? Can the list be added to?

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-27 Thread Laura Stewart
Also, is there a way to force a line break inside of a table in XML tagging? I tried using br/br but forrest site is returning errors... -- Laura Stewart

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-27 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: I have inserted a table into one of the xml documents but now I am getting some errors when I try forrest site that indicate that some attributed (ALIGN and VALGN) are not declared. Is there a list of declared attributes that I can see, so that I know what is valid? Can

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-27 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: Also, is there a way to force a line break inside of a table in XML tagging? I tried using br/br but forrest site is returning errors... h http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.dtdx.html#td shows that br is allowed in a td. Is that where you were

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-27 Thread Laura Stewart
Well, I finally got what I want to work. This will teach me to copy/paste from HTML (argh). I have an XML editor that I am using which checks to ensure that it is a well formed XML document and that there are no tagging errors. I'll be posting the updates to Jira issue 1980. Since I am adding

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-20 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: Laura Stewart wrote: ... Now a few minor irritants :-) I've attached the html page. Please note that the first section title is left justified in the tan bar, but the remaining section titles are not... anyway to fix? Also the table bleeds off to the right... anyway to fix

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-20 Thread Laura Stewart
On 10/20/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean T. Anderson wrote: Hi, Laura, I'm not seeing the problem you are. I uploaded a draft (without binaries to keep the site snapshot small) to: http://people.apache.org/~jta/DERBY-1980/manuals/guidelines.html -jean Hmm, well that

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-20 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: On 10/20/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean T. Anderson wrote: Hi, Laura, I'm not seeing the problem you are. I uploaded a draft (without binaries to keep the site snapshot small) to: http://people.apache.org/~jta/DERBY-1980/manuals/guidelines.html

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
I have successfully performed the forrest seed command. Following the tutorial, I tried changing the sample web pages, but have run into problems getting the changes to appear. I'm having difficulties figuring out which files control which pages (or parts of pages). Should I continue to work

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: I have successfully performed the forrest seed command. Following the tutorial, I tried changing the sample web pages, but have run into problems getting the changes to appear. I'm having difficulties figuring out which files control which pages (or parts of pages).

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... Another clarifying note ... There's a one-to-one correspondence between a source file and the target. After checking out the derby web site source on your local system, this is the file that explains dita processing:

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
The Derby instructions mention several editors, which I don't have. Do you recommend one over the other? Is it okay (albeit not ideal) to edit the XML in wordpad or notepad? Or will this cause problems? -- Laura Stewart

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: The Derby instructions mention several editors, which I don't have. Do you recommend one over the other? Is it okay (albeit not ideal) to edit the XML in wordpad or notepad? Or will this cause problems? Edit it using the tool you like the most, but avoid any editor that

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
Well, I sucessfully created a new page off of the Documentation tab. It is called Guidelines. When I perform forrest site it creates the page just fine. SUCCESS ! So, one of the things that I would like to have off of this new page are 3 sample files that people can use a templates for the

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
Another question. In my XML tagging, I am trying to use the literal tag, but forrest isn't accepting it. Does the tag need to be declared somewhere for it to be accepted? The reason that I am using that tag is so that I can show the DITA tagging with the symbols, for example

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: Well, I sucessfully created a new page off of the Documentation tab. It is called Guidelines. When I perform forrest site it creates the page just fine. SUCCESS ! congratulations! So, one of the things that I would like to have off of this new page are 3 sample files

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: Another question. In my XML tagging, I am trying to use the literal tag, but forrest isn't accepting it. Does the tag need to be declared somewhere for it to be accepted? The reason that I am using that tag is so that I can show the DITA tagging with the symbols, for

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
Huge help Jean ! The CDATA tag is long but worked beautifully !!! Now a few minor irritants :-) I've attached the html page. Please note that the first section title is left justified in the tan bar, but the remaining section titles are not... anyway to fix? Also the table bleeds off to the

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: Might be nice if I included the file :-P On 10/19/06, Laura Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huge help Jean ! The CDATA tag is long but worked beautifully !!! Now a few minor irritants :-) I've attached the html page. Please note that the first section title is

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-19 Thread Laura Stewart
Might be nice if I included the file :-P On 10/19/06, Laura Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huge help Jean ! The CDATA tag is long but worked beautifully !!! Now a few minor irritants :-) I've attached the html page. Please note that the first section title is left justified in the tan

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-18 Thread Laura Stewart
A couple of followup questions. I should run forrest seed in another directory, but in the same path? or in an entirely new path? The env variables... are they user or system variables. I would like to set them permanently instead of having to run the batch file (which by the way worked great

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-18 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: A couple of followup questions. I should run forrest seed in another directory, but in the same path? or in an entirely new path? I suggest that you create a new subdirectory, cd into that subdirectory, then run 'forrest seed'. I tend to hang onto the seeded directory

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-18 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... I updated http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/derby_web.html#Create+a+Forrest+seed+site and added a link to the forrest install instructions at http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#installing The forrest instructions show how to add environment

Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-17 Thread Laura Stewart
I am having some difficulties following the setup instructions for forrest.. should I ask these questions on derby-dev or ??? Is there a user list for forrest? On 10/6/06, Jean T. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... (snip) Your recommendation sounds good. The

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-17 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: I am having some difficulties following the setup instructions for forrest.. should I ask these questions on derby-dev or ??? Is there a user list for forrest? It may be that some of your questions need to be directed to the forrest user list, but unless anyone objects I

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-17 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Laura Stewart wrote: The instructions on the Derby site say to download forrest (which I did) in the following path: C:\Authoring\Forrest\apache-forrest-0.7 The next step says to use the forrest seed command. Nothing happens, the system doesn't recognize this command. ah! The derby

Re: Issues with Forrest/Derby Web site (Was: Re: Proposal - Doc Process Improvements)

2006-10-17 Thread Jean T. Anderson
Jean T. Anderson wrote: ... At any rate, after setting up my environment this way, I was able to run 'forrest -projecthelp', 'forrest seed', and 'forrest site' in the derby site directory. I misspoke; don't run 'forrest seed' in the derby site directory. That will generate a new site that