DOCBOOK: Re: Word template for DocBook

2002-05-16 Thread Steinar Bang
Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 06:27 PM 06/05/2002 -0500, Malcolm Davis wrote: Does anybody have suggestions for a DocBook Word template? Take a look at YAWC (Yet Another Word Converter), http://www.yawcpro.com/ Interesting! Does anyone have experience with this? Is the free lite version

DOCBOOK: tables in fo / pdf output: sizing of columns

2002-05-16 Thread Dominik Kuhn
Hi I'm experimenting with tables and how they appear in pdf-output. There some question arised: 1) If i declare the size of the column in the colspec-tag like colspec colwidth=4cm / i got a column with that width. So far so good. But I'd rather like not to specifiy the column-width and let

DOCBOOK: Re: tables in fo / pdf output: sizing of columns

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dominik Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | 1) If i declare the size of the column in the colspec-tag like | colspec colwidth=4cm / i got a column with that width. So far so | good. But I'd rather like not to specifiy the column-width and let the | renderer (fo or tex?) choose the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables na fo

2002-05-16 Thread martin . perina
- PVODN ZPRVA - Od: Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables na fo Datum: 15.5.2002 - 12:45:11 BTW: Do you have mapping files for Czech fonts? I haven't time to prepare them by myself and one which I have downloaded somewhere have

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:15:20AM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: If you have XEmacs, be aware that it does some sort of DNS lookup when it starts; XEmacs phones home every time it is launched and if you are on a dialup connection, it will wait for a connection before it comes up, and if

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables na fo

2002-05-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I've attached my font mappings for TTF (they're downloadable from MS site) and czech hyphenation file for FOP (it's converted from TeX hyphenation file, but I'm not TeX guru, so it hasn't to be fully functional). Thanks, didn't you considered sending them to

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: javahelp.xsl questions

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Vincent Hikida [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Actually I forgot that I actually do use id=x in the sections. I | think that after being processed through javahelp.xls. I think that the | resulting html should specify target=x but instead I get something | like target=N40025F.

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: imagelib examples?

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Sasha Zucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I'm trying to find the examples for usage of the imagelib.dtd that are | referred to at the end of: | | http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/doc/imagelib.html | | but I can't seem to find them. Can someone help me find these examples?

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Okay, so now, what exactly does this new version of onechunk do? It looks | like it just passes everything off to chunk.xsl. What is the onechunk param | supposed to do? Sorry, you need to get the new chunk.xsl as well. The onechunk parameter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: javahelp.xsl questions

2002-05-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
Vincent Hikida wrote: Actually I forgot that I actually do use id=x in the sections. I think that after being processed through javahelp.xls. I think that the resulting html should specify target=x but instead I get something like target=N40025F. Is there a way that I can control the

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: javahelp.xls (base.dir)

2002-05-16 Thread Jeff Beal
Rather than copy *all* of your XML source to your desired directory, add a line to your ANT script that copies the javahelp control files to the desired directory. -Original Message- From: Vincent Hikida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:34 PM To: 'Jirka Kosek'

DOCBOOK-APPS: sgml2x 0.99.4 released

2002-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
sgml2x 0.99.4 is out. This release adds more comfort: - no more pollution with temporary files, - automatic production of PDF bookmarks, - full usage of DocBook stylesheets without passing extra flags, - catches errors not completely reported by (open)jade, - uses openjade by default, -

DOCBOOK-APPS: problem generating pdf with slides.xsl

2002-05-16 Thread Dominik Kuhn
Hi Generating html from the test-slides dbgentext.xml works. Generating the fo output works too. But when i put it through tex with pdfxmltex test.fo i got the following errors: 5:page-sequence 0:hyphenate = true 0:master-name = titlepage1 0:language = en

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Dennis Grace
Thanks again, Norm. Yeah, I figured I was missing something. I downloaded the latest version of chunk common and tried it, but I got an error because the new chunk.xsl contains an include: xsl:include href=manifest.xsl/ for a file I didn't have. It didn't have any affect on my output,

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: javahelp.xsl questions

2002-05-16 Thread Vincent Hikida
I'm somewhat in a rush now to go to an all day Oracle Users Group meeting but I just want to say what a great list this is As for the version of javahelp.xsl I found this in it. !-- $Id: javahelp.xsl,v 1.1 2002/05/02

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Dennis Grace
Oops, typo. That opening paragraph should read: Yeah, I figured I was missing something. I downloaded the latest version of chunk.xsl and tried it, but I got an error because the new chunk.xsl contains an include: Dennis Grace Information Developer IBM Linux Technology Center (512) 838-3937

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OpenOffice = DocBook

2002-05-16 Thread Robin Rosenberg
I have a crude java program that converts RTF-files (WinHelp) to DocBook via Staroffice. It would not work with non-Winhelp documents, and misses occasional pieces of WinHelp too, but it was enough for us to go to HTML Help+PDF. -- robin torsdagen den 16 maj 2002 18.14 skrev/wrote Michael

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OpenOffice = DocBook

2002-05-16 Thread Jens Stavnstrup
Mike, Yep, found something leass than a hour ago. Early draf to Simplified DocBook. It use Python (using UNO to acces the file) + Saxon and some XSLT script. My only problem, is that the documentation is in french: http://www.chez.com/ebellot/ooo2sdbk/ Regards Jens On Thu, 16 May

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Yeah, I figured I was missing something. I downloaded the latest version of | chunk common and tried it, but I got an error because the new chunk.xsl | contains an include: | | xsl:include href=manifest.xsl/ Can you say 1.50.1-EXP2? Wait

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OpenOffice = DocBook

2002-05-16 Thread Jens Stavnstrup
Mike, This is a nice start, on a project, which could be quite usefull. I would however, prefere the stuff to be implemented in Java, as an extension to XSLT, or maybee and an application which utilize an XSLT processor. Transforming from DocBook to OO should be relatively easy. The otherway

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables na fo

2002-05-16 Thread martin . perina
- PVODN ZPRVA - Od: Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Komu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tables na fo Datum: 16.5.2002 - 10:46:21 Thanks, didn't you considered sending them to FOP development team to include them into standard release? --

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:34 16/05/2002 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: I'm using the psgml emacs package under Windows 2000, as downloaded from the TEI website, and slowly converting to using a powerful (but different keystrokes to what I'm used to !!) editor. However, why does it take almost a minute to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:15 16/05/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: I don't know Windows. If you can run emacs from the RUN button, try running it with --no-init as a run flag; this loads Emacs alone without loading any of the library files. Emacs itself is mostly just an engine, and your distro may have

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | / Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | | Yeah, I figured I was missing something. I downloaded the latest version of | | chunk common and tried it, but I got an error because the new chunk.xsl | | contains an include: | | | |

DOCBOOK-APPS: Index generation for printable material (dsssl)

2002-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
I just started to investigate index generation. collateindex.pl appears to collaborate only with the HTML stylesheets, and there is no similar support-code in the print stylesheets. Does anyone know about tools/methods that would be more generic than that, and would work for printable material

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Index generation for printable material (dsssl)

2002-05-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
Yann Dirson wrote: I just started to investigate index generation. collateindex.pl appears to collaborate only with the HTML stylesheets, and there is no similar support-code in the print stylesheets. Does anyone know about tools/methods that would be more generic than that, and would

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Onechunk problem

2002-05-16 Thread Dennis Grace
Hi all, Norm said: Done. Try 1.50.1-EXP2. It should, at least, be internally consistent. And it may even work :-) Well, almost. The EXP2 version of onechunk.xsl gives me a single file output, and it includes every section, chapter, and appendix without generating error messages.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 19:02 16/05/2002 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: At 00:15 16/05/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: I don't know Windows. If you can run emacs from the RUN button, try running it with --no-init as a run flag; this loads Emacs alone without loading any of the library files. Emacs itself is

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Index generation for printable material (dsssl)

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Wiedmann
* Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020516 23:14]: I just started to investigate index generation. collateindex.pl appears to collaborate only with the HTML stylesheets, and there is no similar support-code in the print stylesheets. Does anyone know about tools/methods that would be more

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: javahelp.xls (base.dir)

2002-05-16 Thread Vincent Hikida
Thanks. I knew that was an option. That was my fall back. It seems from what Norm said that it may be a bug. If that is the case, and it is going to be fixed in the next few months I think I can wait. Vincent -Original Message- From: Jeff Beal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: