DOCBOOK: suitable markup for service ?

2002-05-21 Thread Leni Mayo
I'm working on a document where the notion of a service frequently crops up. Examples of services: syslog, network, cron, inetd, sendmail, sshd etc. Some properties of service: - long-running - usually starts when a computer boots - considered infrastructure by other applications - service may

DOCBOOK: imagedata: entityref vs fileref

2002-05-21 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Greetings, I'm new to the list and I have a question regarding the use of the entityref and fileref attributes when including an image via the imagedata element. When do I use which attribute? Is it merely personal preference? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? What is the preferred

DOCBOOK: Re: imagedata: entityref vs fileref

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Patrick Eisenacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I'm new to the list and I have a question regarding the use of the | entityref and fileref attributes when including an image via the | imagedata element. When do I use which attribute? Is it merely personal | preference? What are the

Re: DOCBOOK: RFE #473365: Allow optional in funcprototype

2002-05-21 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Norman Walsh wrote: The TC discussed this and is considering adding an 'optionalparamdef' wrapper instead (i.e., instead of optional above, not instead of paramdef). Does this seem useful to the community at large? Is a similar optionalmethodparam element needed for methodparam? python

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: imagedata: entityref vs fileref

2002-05-21 Thread Jens Stavnstrup
Patrick, I would only recommend the use of fileref. When you use entityref (the reference is resolved to the physical path (when usibg XSLT with the HTML stylesheets), due to the XSL processors use of unparsen-entity-url. Your HTML file are note very portable, when they refere to the image

DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 21 May 2002

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 May 2002 | === The DocBook Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+)

DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook V4.2 Candidate Release 2

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
The DocBook TC announces the second Candidate Release of DocBook V4.2. Please give it a try and report the results of your efforts. If no errors are reported in the next 30 days, the TC will be able to vote to move it to Committee Specification status. http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 21 May 2002

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:15 21/05/2002 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 May 2002 9b. XML Character entities Mike: Looking at some Linux distributions and a distribution for the CygWin system, I noticed that they are

DOCBOOK-APPS: Subtitle

2002-05-21 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Please help me! I've upgraded my system to Red Hat 7.3. After that, I have problem with the Subtitle tag. The beginning of my sgml-file is: !DOCTYPE Article PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN Article lang=no ArtHeader TitleBruksanvisning for

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP 0.20.3 with 1.50.0 SS problem.

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: | | / Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | | For xhtml/docbook.xsl. | | [java] | | file:/home/maxwell/pws/jdocbook/docbook-xsl-1.50.0/common/common.xsl; | | Line 1385; Column 35; XSLT Error | |

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Subtitle

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Bjørndal) was heard to say: | 1. The Title and Subtitle-texts are placed on the same line if I use |lynx as the browser. The line looks like: [...] |How can I solve this problem? Is it a lynx- or a db-problem? Lynx. Try links. | 2. I can not get the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Ball
Dave Pawson wrote: I had occasion today to include an SVG diagram in HTML output. Is this a rare beast? Not at all! Almost all of the images and diagrams we use in our course materials are SVG. We'll soon be exposing more SVG content (not necessarily images) on the website. Of course, the

DOCBOOK-APPS: numbered lines

2002-05-21 Thread Dennis Grace
I have a developer who wants to print, from a DocBook SGML document, PDFs with numbered lines so that reviewers can respond with comments by line number. Anyone know how to do this in the DSSSLs? Thanks. Dennis Grace Information Developer IBM Linux Technology Center (512) 838-3937 T/L

DOCBOOK-APPS: Producing fontified C on HTML otuput

2002-05-21 Thread Jaime Irving Dávila Latorre
Hi all: I would like to include some C source in my docbook document (I know one can do this by using programlisting) and to produce a fontified html output, similar to the one produced by c2html (you can see a example on http://www.geocities.com/shudderfix/c2html/example/rcs.c.html). Is there

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP 0.20.3 with 1.50.0 SS problem.

2002-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Norman Walsh wrote: / Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: | | / Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | | For xhtml/docbook.xsl. | | [java] | | file:/home/maxwell/pws/jdocbook/docbook-xsl-1.50.0/common/common.xsl; | | Line 1385; Column

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: numbered lines

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I have a developer who wants to print, from a DocBook SGML document, PDFs | with numbered lines so that reviewers can respond with comments by line | number. Anyone know how to do this in the DSSSLs? I don't think you can. Nor do I think you

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Producing fontified C on HTML otuput

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Jaime Irving Dávila Latorre [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | Is there a way to tweak the stylesheets to produce this kind of html | output? Is there another way to accomplish this? Tweak the sourcecode. Run it through some sort of pre-processor that marks up the things you want

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: numbered lines

2002-05-21 Thread Ian Castle
For the TeX output there *may* be some mileage to be had in playing around with one of the styles which provide line numbered output (lineno.sty, numline.sty)... but the chances are that that will just mess things up... On Tuesday 21 May 2002 17:41, Norman Walsh wrote: / Dennis Grace [EMAIL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP 0.20.3 with 1.50.0 SS problem.

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 06:35 21/05/2002 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | BTW, Does the resolver 1.1 have a practical range of verbosity? 0 off, | to the highest ?? It has a range, I don't know if you'll find the steps practical. 0=off, 1=show a few things, 2=show more, 3=show most, 4=show all. And to get it going in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:57 21/05/2002 +1000, Steve Ball wrote: Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. Might have guessed I'm an era out of date (How did Motley put it

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: numbered lines

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:45 21/05/2002 -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: I have a developer who wants to print, from a DocBook SGML document, PDFs with numbered lines so that reviewers can respond with comments by line number. Anyone know how to do this in the DSSSLs? ?? Deliver the xml to the reviewers? Then user markup

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Producing fontified C on HTML otuput

2002-05-21 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
`cat -n' works (on Linux). --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovichttp://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 NW == Norman Walsh [EMAIL

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Producing fontified C on HTML otuput

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | `cat -n' works (on Linux). I thought more than line-numbers was desired. If all you want is line numbers, you can just turn on linenumbering on the programlisting in question. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK-APPS: Administrivia: lists posting policy change

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
Effective immediately, the DocBook and DocBook-Apps lists only accept messages sent in plain text (using MIME type text/plain). Messages sent as text/html will be rejected. In point of fact, I don't think a single legitimate message has ever been sent to the list in text/html, but I get a dozen

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Ball
Dave Pawson wrote: At 22:57 21/05/2002 +1000, Steve Ball wrote: Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. Do the html stylesheets do the right

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: blockquotes/attribution

2002-05-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
This is using SGML and DSSSL 1.76 And I'm starting my own stylesheet like: !DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC -//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN [ !ENTITY dbstyle SYSTEM docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/print/docbook.dsl CDATA DSSSL ] I'm creating my pdf via: jw -d poetry.dsl -b pdf poetry.sgm

DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting pagebreaks in pdf output using FOP

2002-05-21 Thread Martin Stemplinger
Hi all, I have a document with an appendix containing some large tables and graphics and I'd prefer to see them on a separate page each. Is there a simple way to customize the fo-stylsheets to insert a pagebreak before or after an element? Any hints appreciated! Martin