Re: DOCBOOK: linty problem in docbook-xml v4.1.2

2001-04-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: nsgmls:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1/calstblx.dtd:67:0:W: unused paramete\ r entity "tbl.table.name" Seems like it would be nice for the DTD to be fully and linty clean... Unused parameter entity is not er

Re: DOCBOOK: Okay, why?

2001-04-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to do into details, since this ain't the -apps list, but suffice it to say that the concept of resolving all public identifiers over the internet each and every time a document is processed, is completely beyond me. And I'm behind a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Table problem when converting to pdf

2001-04-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would strongly recommend going to DB 4.1 and use the latest version of Norman Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets. Many problems have been fixed. Likewise, new JadeTeX and the newest OpenJade (which is very slow!) has some table fixes. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: HTML from docbook

2001-04-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oleg Amiton wrote: Put following code into your customized stylesheet: (define %html-header-tags% '(("META" ("HTTP-EQUIV" "Content-Type") ("CONTENT" "text/html; charset=koi8-r" Should the stylesheets do this automatically? Can we know the

Re: DOCBOOK: objection to docbook.dcl

2001-04-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would not be better to package XML version of DocBook to Linux distributions as there are many new tools which are not able to process SGML? We try to package it all and let the user decide. Who am I to say, "don't use SGML" ? Anyhow, you're point has

Re: New to DocBook: XML or SGML, Clark or Open?

2001-04-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"M. Wroth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OpenJADE is the open source continuation of JADE, started with James' blessing when he became too involved in other projects to continue to update JADE. There is additional functionality in OpenJade, which may or may not be important to you (*I*

DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL issue when para is top-level element

2001-03-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The "common" root elements all contain a test to output the right simple-page-sequence wrapper. I never put those tests down to the paragraph level. If it's a problem, I suppose it could be done. Not a big issue with me -- I don't think para as a top

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL HTML stylesheets problem with table rowsepandcolsep

2001-03-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wouldn't the table decorations be done better in CSS? Possibly. However, it is specified in the source table, and if possible, should be output in the HTML. Whether we use CSS style attributes or HTML 4.01 features are both a little risky. Anyhow, maybe

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: objection to docbook.dcl

2001-03-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Karl Eichwalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes -- I'm not against a declaratation. I'm just against a declaration which is unnecessarily restrictive, with the consequence that a non-trival number (perhaps 30%? more?) of the docbook SGML

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Jade RTF header/footer alignment error

2001-03-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, Jade appears to assume that new chapters start on the right side of the spread (i.e. odd-numbered). This would be true, if an extra blank page were inserted at the end of the previous chapter, but since it's not, an incorrect header/footer

Re: DOCBOOK: objection to docbook.dcl

2001-03-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | accept. The unnecessarily broad divergance of the shipped Docbook | declaration puts a burden on document engineers using DocBook. This whole problem is probably the result of documentation errors

norm's heaping pile (was Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FO extension for bookmarks)

2001-03-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Norm, have you considered moving away from a cathedral model and to a more open source model for some of your stuff? You could start a project on sourceforge or some ilk for DSSSL and XSL stylesheets, offer CVS anonymous access, give out write access to the trusted elite, track bugs and

Re: DOCBOOK: online help

2001-03-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We're just making rather early explanations of online help via Docbook. Can someone describe to me or point me to a description of the salient structure of online help vs the structure of DocBook documents? From my early use, we're using context sensitive help linked into specific anchors in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fix for table cell indents and margins in PDF files

2001-02-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The log file doesn't give me any hint, either. What am I doing wrong? The .TeX file you are building from is messed up. It's not a jadetex issue because by the time jadetex gets to it, it's too late. Jump back and run the Jade/OpenJade command again and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SOLVED! Re: Workaround for JadeTex extra pages?

2001-02-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope this bug is fixed soon. 8-( It's already fixed in jadetex 3.4, I think. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this elist send a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to do that. If I did, any one that wanted to build the documentation for a specific output format is going to need to have the same tools to hand as the original author -- I think this is too heavy a burden to force on people, I'm not

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: As far as the *author* is concerned, they should be providing images in one of two formats, EPS, or PNG, depending on whichever is most appropriate. My assumptions are different, I guess

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. I saw this if I used pdftex and used the .png files *natively*. They still appeared about twice as large as I'd like them to be in the generated .pdf file. This wouldn't have been a problem *if* I could have reliably converted from

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I do is that most of my source images are in .eps, and for PDF output, I convert from .eps to .pdf. Thus no density problem arises. 'convert foo.eps foo.pdf' works great. Actually, scratch that. I just noticed that this convert for eps to pdf

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Wiedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nik Clayton wrote on 010210 00:27 +: ... a few times, to generate the .pdf file. That's that, pretty much. You can see BSD style .mk files that implement all of this, at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/share/mk/

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem converting DB to PDF...

2001-02-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:04:27AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I have an unreleased but I think pretty decent system, 'preheat'. This is a scheme-based system. You specify a little scheme file with the local stuff to build and customization

Re: DOCBOOK: Is it possible in DocBook?

2001-02-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, it seems that jade has trouble translating the SGML SDATA entities for Cyrillic into actual output. But it (seems to) work fine if the entities are replaced with Unicode character references. (Why has no one reported this before?) I'll fix it for