Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Joachim Ziegler
Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 00:23 schrieb Steve Ball: What do you mean by exercises? I mean something like exercise level=graduate paraProof that the traveling salesman problem is NP-complete./para /exercise When I talk about exercises I mean practical exercises, as in an examination

DOCBOOK: Re: problems with install on windows platform

2002-10-10 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Heck Daniel this is XML specific. | | Even the guru's on the XSLT list can't figure this out. | | I think what I'm saying is: | | Propose a method for resolving windows specific file locations, |

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Joachim Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Exercises occur much more frequently as a building block than descriptions of | destructors., I think. That's why I was wondering why there is no

DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Joachim Ziegler
Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 14:46 schrieb Norman Walsh: In computer hardware and software documentation? Maybe. Maybe not. Exercises seem more like a teaching tool, an extension for tutorial documentation, perhaps. Still, the question has come up before. I wonder what else fits in that

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:43 10/10/2002, Joachim Ziegler wrote: BTW, I've written a book about learning programming. It was coded in Latex (and in German). I'm currently evaluating DocBook as a basis for the second print of this book or for some other book about programming (mainly because I like the ability to

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Joachim Ziegler
Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 18:50 schrieb Dave Pawson: If DocBook is not the right DTD for writing a book about programming (including exercises), what else in the XML world is? Should I stick with Latex? grin/ Sounds like a bribe/blackmail Joachim? I'd suggest stick with latex

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Michael P. Urban
Robert P. J. Day wrote i've asked before what would be appropriate for a set of exercises as well. i'm using docbook to rewrite a bunch of courseware manuals, and there are frequent exercises every few pages for the students to test what they've (supposedly) just learned. so i'm

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL 1.56.1: The id N400036F already exists in thisdocument

2002-10-10 Thread Stephan Wiesner
I tried Saxon 6 (I use the EDE environmnt from e-novative.de) now and I get the same error, only with a different id. Here I can find the id in the generated fo, but only once. And again it happens only for large documents. I have one with 65 pages (DIN A4) and I don't get an error. However,

DOCBOOK-APPS: GUI for creation of encrypted PDFs

2002-10-10 Thread Stephan Wiesner
Hi list, I have made a Java GUI available that combines FOP and iText to ease the process of creating PDF and HTML output. The iText libraries allow the encryption of PDFs and features like allow/disallow printing and copying. Nothing special, but I find it quite usefull to have something to

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude support in Saxon and Xalan

2002-10-10 Thread Jens Stavnstrup
Have look at Elliotte Rusty Harolds Xinclude project at http://xincluder.sourceforge.net Regards Jens On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jeff Beal wrote: I'm working on that in my spare time. I've gotten some very basic XIncludes to work, but nothing extravagant. Jeff -Original Message-

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude support in Saxon and Xalan

2002-10-10 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 8:58 AM -0400 10/10/02, Jeff Beal wrote: I didn't know about this. Does it try to do any sort of validation? No, validation is separate from XInclude. You can validate if you want to or not. You can validate before or after inclusion or both or neither. It helps to think of your system as

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude support in Saxon and Xalan

2002-10-10 Thread ed nixon
See below... Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: At 8:58 AM -0400 10/10/02, Jeff Beal wrote: I didn't know about this. Does it try to do any sort of validation? No, validation is separate from XInclude. You can validate if you want to or not. You can validate before or after inclusion or

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: attribute sets

2002-10-10 Thread Dennis Grace
In response to my Okay, I guess I don't get it. How do I make use of the attribute-sets in a customization layer? I tried this: xsl:attribute-set name=admonition.title.properties xsl:attribute name=font-size10pt/xsl:attribute xsl:attribute name=font-weightbold/xsl:attribute

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Manually Chunking with PIs

2002-10-10 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:05:58PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:45:26AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: There is also a couple of new options: --nowrite : refuse to write to any file or resource --nomkdir : refuse to create directories To be able to

DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX bookmarks fix

2002-10-10 Thread Dennis Grace
If you generate PDF using PassiveTeX, the bookmarks for chapters and sections come out looking like this: ChapterA0'fotex3.A0'fotexDownloading and Installing Cabbage 3.1A0'fotexHandling Kohlrabi 3.2A0'fotexSpecial Precautions for Brussel Sprouts Apparently the A0fotex is how

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX bookmarks fix

2002-10-10 Thread David Cramer
The nbsps in the language files prevent the line from breaking between the term and the number. I.e. it keeps you from ending up with: blah blah blah blah blah blah Appendix A blah blah blah blah. I doubt that's valuable enough to keep if it breaks passivetex's bookmarks, tho it's really a

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Manually Chunking with PIs

2002-10-10 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | 1. the toc file ist generated by maketoc.xsl | but you always have to edit the toc file according to your needs. I guess that's true. I suppose I'd write an XSLT to transform the TOC into the

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: attribute sets

2002-10-10 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | process. Nothing I put in an attribute-set in my customization layer does | anything (my list.block.spacing doesn't work, either). | | Could this be an xsltproc problem? Sounds that way to

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX bookmarks fix

2002-10-10 Thread Dennis Grace
David Cramer answered my question about the nbsps in the language files with: The nbsps in the language files prevent the line from breaking between the term and the number. I.e. it keeps you from ending up with: blah blah blah blah blah blah Appendix A blah blah blah blah. I doubt that's

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTeX bookmarks fix

2002-10-10 Thread David Cramer
Good point. I'd file a bug report/enhancement request. David -Original Message- From: Dennis Grace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I can see that for the xref context, but how is that an issue in the title-numbered context? When do those titles end up in the text body?

DOCBOOK-APPS: FW: The id N400036F already exists in this document

2002-10-10 Thread Stephan Wiesner
Hi list, I posted a problem with ids earlier today and have since tried to solve it with some help from the FOP list. Here is a comment from J.Pietschmann, who is quite able concerning the FOP stuff. Here is the XML that corresponds to the FO below: qandaentry question paraDifference

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: attribute sets

2002-10-10 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:58:04PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Dennis Grace [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | process. Nothing I put in an attribute-set in my customization layer does | anything (my list.block.spacing doesn't work,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: attribute sets

2002-10-10 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:48:06PM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: Okay, I guess I don't get it. How do I make use of the attribute-sets in a customization layer? I tried this: xsl:attribute-set name=admonition.title.properties xsl:attribute name=font-size10pt/xsl:attribute

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: conditionalization of XML

2002-10-10 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:14:59PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: What would you consider a complete solution to this problem? I'm not wedded to xmlif itself, I just need to get some work done that requires being able to conditionalize stuff. If you think there's a better way to handle this,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: attribute sets

2002-10-10 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:04:03PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:48:06PM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: Okay, I guess I don't get it. How do I make use of the attribute-sets in a customization layer? I tried this: xsl:attribute-set

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: nesting variablelists in PDF

2002-10-10 Thread Bob Stayton
Looks like nested variablelists should be the FO-Processor-Challenge-Of-The_Week. 8^) I used three processors and got three different results when using 'variablelist.as.blocks'. What the stylesheet is supposed to produce in this mode is: Term two exercitation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis