On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:17:12AM -0400, Dan York wrote:
Last time we (the DocBook Open Repository team) discussed it, the
general feeling was that Make was still more broadly available than
ant and was thus more appropriate.
100% agreed... warts and all, make is still the only thing
At 11:17 06/05/2002 -0400, Dan York wrote:
Last time we (the DocBook Open Repository team) discussed it, the
general feeling was that Make was still more broadly available than
ant and was thus more appropriate.
100% agreed... warts and all, make is still the only thing you can count
on
At 18:32 06/05/2002 +0200, Holger Krug wrote:
Today it is very difficult to *make docbook*, it takes several hours
to find all the resources needed,
Good point Holger.
Unless you've done it before, the full list of 'bits I need'
are quite tiresome to track down.
Worth a webpage on both oasis,
Dave Pawson wrote:
At 11:17 06/05/2002 -0400, Dan York wrote:
Last time we (the DocBook Open Repository team) discussed it, the
general feeling was that Make was still more broadly available than
ant and was thus more appropriate.
100% agreed... warts and all, make is still the
/ Christopher J. Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I would like to request that the author element be placed in the chapter. If
| there is a way to do this, let me know. Seems strange to have a authorblub
| but not the author.
If you're trying to indicate authorship of the chapter,
/ joel amoussou [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Is there any namespace for DocBook?
No, DocBook does not have a namespace. The primary reasons are
historical. DocBook predates XML and namespaces by at least five years
and there is significant legacy built on SGML DocBook in which a
/ Vincent Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| file, this resulted in FOP (version 0.20.3) giving an error:
| [ERROR]: The id toc...book1_chapter_2 already exists in this document
|
| I examine the FO file and sure enough the id is indeed duplicated...
Yes. I'm working on that. It's
At 20:56 06/05/2002 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote:
I'm able to make stylesheets in Win32 environment using Cygwin. Having
better and more automatically working making environment (based on make
or ant) will be plus, but there are more important things I think.
Agreed.
Normall people are not forced
/ Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
|Normall people are not forced to build stylesheet. Even if they want to
|apply some patch before official release, they can usually get one or
|few modifed files from CVS and copy them over existing files. Build is
|neccessary only if new
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:47:23AM +, Matt G. wrote:
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:06:02AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
That's neat trick.
But I don't see an option with Saxon or xsltproc to
define an entity on the command line. Which processor
can do that?
Sorry, I guess I might
Does anybody have suggestions for a DocBook Word template?
Thanks,
Malcolm
Take a look at YAWC (Yet Another Word Converter), http://www.yawcpro.com/
At 06:27 PM 06/05/2002 -0500, Malcolm Davis wrote:
Does anybody have suggestions for a DocBook Word template?
Thanks,
Malcolm
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
At 18:32 06/05/2002 +0200, Holger Krug wrote:
Today it is very difficult to *make docbook*, it takes several hours
to find all the resources needed,
Worth a webpage on both oasis, docbook.org and sourceforge
perhaps, just
Kraa de Simon wrote:
Solution 1: use base name in html file and tell HTML Help compiler where the
file actually is:
span class=inlinemediaobject
img src=71000.b.0.png
/span
[FILES]
../../images/screen/71000.b.0.png
Problem: have to adjust the XSL stylesheets and don't know how...
Hi,
I use DSSSL to generate PDF. For last week
I try to turn off List of Tables generation
in PDF. Unsuccessfully :-(
I was able to suppress even TOC, but LOT
is always there. Could you please give me
a hint, how not to generate list of tables?
I use one of latest openjade and
Hello,
With XSL 1.50.0, xsltproc, and the following customization:
1) only index.html goes into html/ The rest is written in current directory
2) chunk.quietly is ignored
Is something missing?
Also, I'm wondering what the using.chunker parameter is for??
Camille.
FWIW, we had a similar problem where we needed to point to an external
graphics library (not part of the project root). We didn't want authors to
have to deal with the location of the graphics (which might change anyway).
Our solution is to pass in a 'graphics.dir' param from the command line.
Ed,
Thanks for the interesting experiments.
Just fyi, I use Netscape 4.7x, and all the graphics look
the same size. (I also have IE6.0, and I did see the
expected results with IE6.0.)
I realize that Netscape 4.x has pretty pitiful support
in this area. However, if one is trying to generate
Sorry, meant this for the list too.
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:51:15 -0400
To: Paul Grosso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiment for Notes on Graphics in HTML
Paul,
Thanks. As I mention in the item, proper scaling is definitely the best
thing
At 12:51 2002 05 06 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote:
Thanks. As I mention in the item, proper scaling is definitely the best thing to do
for numerous reasons; whatever proper might mean to a visually disabled individual.
Maybe the simplest thing to do, if this seems like an important issue, would be to
At 10:59 06/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:
I'm not sure exactly how all this translates into what should
the DocBook stylesheets do, but it does make for an interesting
discussion on how to optimize automated web site generation via XSL.
What timescales Paul?
Netscape 4.x is time limited.
At 12:52 06/05/2002 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote:
Thanks. As I mention in the item, proper scaling is definitely the best
thing to do for numerous reasons;
It is fairly intuitive Ed.
I want this image, its too big/small, make it x% bigger/smaller (and keep
the ht/width ratio)
I'd suggest its worth
/ Jens Emmerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| most elements don't support XREFs, mostly it just doesn't make much
| sense, there's nothing to display as xref-text.
Yeah, but xref to refnamediv seems reasonable. Fixed for the next release...
Be
/ Kraa de Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Just a quick question... Newbie to CSS...
|
| Is it possible to change the layout/presentation using CSS? (for example of
| a table)
Yes.
| I enabled table.borders.with.css.
I just fixed a bunch of bugs in that code and added a bunch of
/ Jens Emmerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Does anybody know *why* the XSL standard mandates the resolution of
| relative URLs?
Because relative URIs in entity declarations are relative to the base
URI of the document in which the declaration occurs. The parser is
really the only
Hi,
I use DSSSL to generate PDF. For last week
I try to turn off List of Tables generation
in PDF. Unsuccessfully :-(
I was able to suppress even TOC, but LOT
is always there. Could you please give me
a hint, how not to generate list of tables?
I use one of latest openjade and
Hello Jirka, all,
Thank you for your reply.
The images do show if I open the html file directly so I guess the image
path is correct.
The directory structure is:
./images
./en/htmlhelp
So the paths look like ../../images if I want to reference the images from
the ./en/htmlhelp directory.
I
/ Christopher J. Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I am trying to encode an XML example as a programlisting entity.i am getting
| the following errors. It works without the ?xml version=1.0?
What parser is giving you an error? I think that's a parser bug. You can't put
the XML
/ Jakob Voß [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| the layout file should be something like this:
|
| layout
| toc page=subdir.xml dir=subdir file=index.html
| tocentry page=subdir\foo.xml file=foo.html/
Try subdir/foo.xml. (/ not \)
Be seeing you,
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I was trying various vrsions of SAXON, but it's same.
| Is only way rewriting templates in my XSL, or I haven't something
| set?
The latest Saxon fixes this bug. 6.5.2, I think, but maybe it's 6.5.3.
Be seeing you,
/ Rory Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| For the script tag, HTML 4 specifies that an end tag is required.
| For external script files, obviously there is no content to the tags.
| Thus, when using XHTML I can legally shorten this to script
| blah=blah ... /, can I not?
Yes, you can.
/ Trevor Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| With a name like that I think I would have found it. :-) I'm using the
| DSSSL versions. And there doesn't seem to be anything equivalent.
True. I apparently haven't implemented the table formatting for
segmented lists. If you file a
At 07:50 PM 06/05/2002 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
At 10:59 06/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:
I'm not sure exactly how all this translates into what should
the DocBook stylesheets do, but it does make for an interesting
discussion on how to optimize automated web site generation via XSL.
What
/ Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I'm using XSL 1.50.0 and XML-dtd-4.2 and trying to set up a driver file for
| FO. My PDFs show some of the section titles on one page with the actual
| section appearing on the following page. Isn't the
| keep-with-next.withing-column attribute
/ Baurjan Ismagulov [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I use para within listitem. What I can't understand is, why white space
| in para is significant within listitem, and not significant otherwise.
| In other words, why the following construction produces leading space
| on the first line:
Hi,
I have a problem with making pdf from xml-docbook. The stylesheet
transforms simplelist element to fo:table without table-column, but fop
wants explicit column-width propery to render the table. So, is there
anybody know what can i do?
Thanks.
D.
/ Baurjan Ismagulov [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Hello,
|
| I want to use an additional text in figures (besides the title). It
| shouldn't be listed in the LOF. For example:
You can put a para inside the figure.
Be seeing you,
/ Matthew Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I want to include the contents of an external text file within my
| DocBook XML document without making the font monospaced, and retaining
| all linebreaks and whitespace within the file. I've been trying this
| using saxon 6.5 (with
/ Steinar Bang [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| I've tried putting in a
| colspec colnum=1 colwidth=85%/
| at the start of the tgroup, but that didn't seem to have any
| effect.
I think that should have worked. If the result wasn't a first column
that was 85% of the width of the
/ Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| So where's the newbie guide to wiki's, i.e.
| syntax to use, etc.
There's a link from the DocBook Wiki to http://purl.net/wiki/moin/
where there are some instructions.
| Is it as simple as it says on the edit sheets?
| No docbook submissions
/ Michael Cortez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Oh, you'll love this one.
|
| -
| java.lang.RuntimeException: 2 = 2
I think this is related to the 'array out of bounds' error with Xalan
that has been discussed before. I'm trying to get it resolved by the
Xalan folks as fast as I can.
/ Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Back in November Bob and Norm briefly discussed the addition of a window
| attribute to ULink to allow opening a new browser window from a link. Are
| we still waiting on XLink? Has anything been done with this? Can I just
| specify the window
/ Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| Notes below:
|
| At 02:44 PM 02/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:
|At 12:41 2002 05 01 -0700, Norman Walsh wrote:
|snip
|1. If only the content-area is specified, everything is fine.
| (If you ask for a three inch image, that's
/ Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
| To try to increase my own understanding of what I was trying to say,
| I've put together a very quick and dirty and, perhaps, superficial
| page with some illustrations of cascading styles and image handling.
| You can find it here:
|
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