Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-18 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael Smith wrote: > However we decide to model it, it seems like Refentry needs to be > allowed in there somewhere. Agreed. > And if we do add a recursive topic element to divcomponent.mix, I too > would be strongly opposed to allowing it to contain other sectioning > ele

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-18 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael Smith wrote: > But the content model Norm proposed for Topic is recursive, just like > the one for Section is -- that is, a Topic can contain other Topics, > nested indefinitely. So you could do: > > > How to Drive > > Start to start your car > >

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-18 Thread Gershon L Joseph
That's what I come up with whenever I try to develop a DTD for online help... I think it's the correct approach. Gershon On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Dave Pawson wrote: > Using the 'dita' logic, wouldn't that then be a collection of individual > topics? > I.e. a super-topic? > topic: what the engine is

Re: DOCBOOK: Table problems

2001-10-18 Thread Gershon L Joseph
Phillip, Did you update the fields in the RTF file after generating the RTF? One needs to open the RTF file in Word, select all (Ctrl+A) and the update fields (F9). That should do the trick. Gershon On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Phillip Shelton wrote: > I am using Jade and the DSSSL1.73 style sheets ag

DOCBOOK: Bug Report: DocBook XML info pool module v4.1.2

2001-07-27 Thread Gershon L Joseph
Norm, I'm busy customizing the DocBook DTD and came across the following bug in xbpoolx.mod. Instead of: ]]> is written: ]]> Of course, the DTD works correctly, since it's only a documentation bug, but you may as well fix it. Gershon

Re: DOCBOOK: Proposal: extend textobject to point to external files

2001-05-20 Thread Gershon L Joseph
Im all for this addition too. I currently use with hardcoded screens, which have to be changed "in place" for each release. It would be much easier to use file entities with to manage these. Gershon -- To unsubscribe from this