Announce: Simplified DocBook: The Definitive Guide

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
In response to several requests, this morning I built a custom version of DocBook: TDG for Simplified DocBook. At the moment, only the element reference is really available, but you can see the results at: http://docbook.org/tdg/simple/en/ Comments, etc., most welcome. Also updated: I added

DOCBOOK: Re: affiliation changes that were supposed to be in 4.0

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Mike Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | The TDG reference page for affiliation says | | In DocBook V4.0, Affiliation will be removed from some of the places in | which it now occurs. Instead of appearing inside Author, for example, a new | wrapper element will be created to

Re: DOCBOOK: Announce again: Updated The Definitive Guide published

2002-06-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:55:18PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: I've published version 2.0.6 of DocBook: The Definitive Guide at http://docbook.org/tdg/ Hm, the CVS is still not usable as-is, this version still uses SYSTEM ../../docbook/ebnf/ebnf-4.2CR1.dtd, and this file is not in CVS... It

DOCBOOK: Re: Announce again: Updated The Definitive Guide published

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:55:18PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | I've published version 2.0.6 of DocBook: The Definitive Guide at | http://docbook.org/tdg/ | | Hm, the CVS is still not usable as-is, this version still uses SYSTEM |

DOCBOOK: Simplifying info wrappers

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
DocBook currently has different info wrappers for metadata at (most) different levels: ArticleInfo, BookInfo, ChapterInfo, Sect1Info, etc. The original motivation for this scheme was to allow customizers to change metadata on an element-by-element basis. An organization might decide to simplify

DOCBOOK: Placement of info wrappers

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
It has been observed that the relative placement of info-wrappers and titles is inconsistent: set title setinfo.../setinfo book title bookinfo.../bookinfo chapter chapterinfo.../chapterinfo title table blockinfo.../table title This could be fixed, but it would be a backwards

DOCBOOK: Re: XML Character Entities Version 0.2

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Greg Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | There are a handful of descriptions in the DocBook entity files that | appear to be incorrect, and are therefore a bit confusing. Thanks. Fixed in CVS. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK-APPS: org.apache.fop.apps.Fop does not generate any output

2002-06-13 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, # org.apache.fop.apps.Fop index.fo -pdf index.pdf [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 just does not generate any pdf output. But I don't get any error messages. What could be the problem? -- Johannes

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: passivetex reading xslt fo file?

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:44:45AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Do I understand correctly that xsltproc wrote a fo file that passivetex can't read? Can this issue be fixed? No, the fo file is ok, because the TexLive 7 version of

DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade - chapter rendering and other quesions

2002-06-13 Thread Baráth Gábor
Hi, is there anybody knows: - how to make openjade when producing two-sided output, to put the chapter to the next available page (not to next even (right side)? - how can i produce back cover for the book? - how can i put toc and lot to the same page? Thanks for any help: G.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: passivetex reading xslt fo file?

2002-06-13 Thread Togan Muftuoglu
problem is likely the TeX setup. I have only had success with PassiveTeX using TexLive. It is theoretically possible to add the PassiveTeX updates to an existing TeX installation, but my attempts to do that so far lead to failures with obscure errors like you have seen. That's bad. I will

DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing dsl file for openjade

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, As a second platform, I am currently exploring openjade for html and pdf creation. From a HOWTO, I pulled the following dsl file that allows me to customize both html and print output from the same dsl file: !DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC -//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN [ !ENTITY %

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing dsl file for openjade

2002-06-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:52:39PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: !ENTITY docbook.dsl PUBLIC -//Norman Walsh//DOCUMENT DocBook HTML Stylesheet//EN CDATA dsssl !ENTITY docbook.dsl PUBLIC -//Norman Walsh//DOCUMENT DocBook Print Stylesheet//EN CDATA dsssl When I invoke openjade -t xml -d

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade - chapter rendering and other quesions

2002-06-13 Thread Baráth Gábor
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 19:02, Juan R. Migoya wrote: What tool are you using? xsl, dsssl? openjade + dsssl 1.76 Barth Gbor wrote: Hi, is there anybody knows: - how to make openjade when producing two-sided output, to put the chapter to the next available page (not to next even

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade - chapter rendering and other quesions

2002-06-13 Thread Ian Castle
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:14, Baráth Gábor wrote: Hi, is there anybody knows: - how to make openjade when producing two-sided output, to put the chapter to the next available page (not to next even (right side)? If you are using reasonably recent DSSSL modular stylesheets, openjade and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade - chapter rendering and other quesions

2002-06-13 Thread Kevin Dunn
(declare-characteristic two-side-start-on-right? UNREGISTERED::OpenJade//Characteristic::two-side-start-on-right? #f) Note that (define %two-side-start-on-right% #f) ought to be enough, but it isn't due to a stylesheet error in docbook.dsl. This has been reported to sourceforge. --

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: org.apache.fop.apps.Fop does not generate any output

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: Hi, # org.apache.fop.apps.Fop index.fo -pdf index.pdf [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 just does not generate any pdf output. But I don't get any error messages. What could be the problem? Are you able to process other docbook .fo

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Newbie trouble with output of 'section'-separatedHTML-files

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Joachim Liedtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | book | chapter | sect1.../sect1 | sect2.../sect2 | sectn.../sectn | /chapter | /book That's not legal. Either you meant: book chapter sect1.../sect1 sect1.../sect1 sect1.../sect1 /chapter /book or book