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Thank you for your advice!
Nic Gibson wrote:
Hi Joachim, I can't give an absolute recommendation but I've
successfully migrated to a DocBook 5.0 toolchain (vim instead of
I do not mean migrating my old content form 4.x to 5.0.
I mean starting a brandnew project, and I wonder whether I should
Shawn wrote:
Hi,
I had the same problem and ended up adding image support for FOP.
The Jimi image library, which is by default used for processing images
in PNG and other formats, was removed from the distribution for
licensing reasons. So...:
Either
a) obtain Jimi from
Hello,
Bob Stayton writes in Using the XSLT Sheets that
FOP can handle PDF as a vector format:
Table 16.6. FO processor supported graphics formats
FO Processor Bitmap formats Vector formats
FOP PNG JPEG SVG PDF
But I get the following error from FOP 0.20.5rc2
[ERROR] Error while creating area :
Bob Stayton wrote:
In the meanwhile, you can extend the list in notation.class
using local.notation.class to allow PDF by adding this to your
DOCTYPE in each file:
!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC ... ... [
!ENTITY % local.notation.class | PDF
]
That should enable validation.
It seems that xmllint can't
Daniel Veillard wrote:
Strange ... I don't know DocBook DTD, before saying it's a libxml2 bug
I would like a full example. But please check first with a recent version
2.4.12 is really old (current is 2.5.4).
http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html
Sorry, but this is hard to do for me. I would have to
Daniel Veillard wrote:
it as a notation. Try to add
!NOTATION PIC SYSTEM PIC
in the internal subset of the document, and see if this validates,
I bet it's the problem :-)
OK, I got now
!ENTITY % local.notation.class | PDF
!NOTATION PDF SYSTEM PDF
and it works! Thank
Hello,
I've just tried the following from Bob Staytons 2using the XSLT
Stylesheets:
Example 16.1. Multiple graphics in a mediaobject
mediaobject id=MousePicture
imageobject role=html
imagedata format=PNG fileref=mouse.png/
/imageobject
imageobject role=fo
imagedata
Bob Stayton wrote:
Are you using any customizations that might affect the
simplelist? Any customizations of its ancestors?
No. All I do is
xsl:import
href=/KM/usr/ziegler/DocBook/docbook-xsl-1.59.2/fo/docbook.xsl/
xsl:param name=section.autolabel select=1/
xsl:param
Bob Stayton wrote:
I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of
figures/tables.
You could file a Request for Enhancement (RFE) at DocBook's
SourceForge site. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't want to
see this as the default behavior, but it could be an
option.
Hmm,
Nicolas Nieswandt wrote:
Joachim Ziegler wrote:
No no, my file is valid! :-(
Are you really sure? ;-)
I discoverd no problems with the stylesheets concerning footnotes.
So some more information would be nice, in order to guide you to
the solution.
You can have a look at the missing
Hello,
I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of
figures/tables.
I have some tables and figures with a quite long description (given in
title/title) and a short description (given in
titleabbrev../titelabbrev).
Now in the running text, when I have an xref to such a
Nicolas Nieswandt wrote:
What does your markup look like ?
If you are using
footnotecontent/footnote
No no, my file is valid! :-(
try
footnoteparacontent/para/footnote
footnotesimparacontent/simpara/footnote
I know. Thank you anyway.
Joachim
Daniel Veillard wrote:
And that's normal. You must provide the encoding information if
it can't be guessed as UTF8 or UTF16. Your file is not well formed XML as
is.
Daniel
ok, I do now:
xmllint -valid --encode ISO-8859-1 --noout LEDATutorium.xml
Compilation finished at Tue Feb 18 11:49:51
Hello,
I just came across a strange problem:
From a certain point on in the middle of my document, in the middle of
a sect2, no footnotes are generated any more by the XSLT stylesheets
(1.59.2 with HTML output).
To be more precise: the link to the footnote and the corresponding
number is
How do I markup an operator like ++?
Is something like
The operator function++/function increments its operand.
ok? (Every operator can be seen as a function.)
Greetings,
Joachim
Rune Enggaard Lausen wrote:
At the end of each subdocument, you put a comment similar to
!--
Local Variables:
mode: xml
sgml-parent-document: (master-file.xml)
End:
--
Substitute the name of your file containing the DOCTYPE for
master-file.xml.
The next time you load the
Rune Enggaard Lausen wrote:
I'm using Emacs with psgml. Using method a) does not allow me to
associate any DTD to my chunk, so psgml is worthless, right?
Wrong :-)
At the end of each subdocument, you put a comment similar to
!--
Local Variables:
mode: xml
sgml-parent-document:
Bob Stayton wrote:
You need to use olinks in a modular document only if you
want to be able to validate each module. If you don't use
olink, then when you try to validate a module by itself,
any xref or link pointing to another module will be reported
as missing the ID.
But if you only care
Hello,
I have a document that is getting larger and larger.
Can someone please tell what's the state of the art concerning breaking
a document into smaller physical chunks?
a) using entities as described in The Definite Guide:
!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM chap1.sgm
!ENTITY chap2 SYSTEM chap2.sgm
]
Tobias Reif wrote:
I think numbered sections (like sect1) aren't as common now as
they once were, with nested sections being used more, but that's
just an impression I have. I don't know how accurate it is.
I see; I could simply use section elements and none of sect[1-5].
That's news to
I'm just wondering what the difference is and when I should use which
tag. Can somebody explain to me or give a good example?
Greetings,
Joachim
Hello,
I'm planning to use DocBook to write a tutorial for the LEDA library
(Library of Efficient Data Types and Algorithms).
In this tutorial I will present many quite long code examples. i.e.
source files of about 100 lines.
I've just learned how I can include an external code file with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was working on a book last year, writing using DocBook, I wound
up splitting the files into fragments, and having a Makefile manage
Thank you. That's a good idea.
In my case, it would suffice to only specify the line numbers from
(between) which source code
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 18:26 schrieb Bob Stayton:
Looking back in the archives, it seems that this is how you
do it with 4.1.2:
programlisting
inlinemediaobject
imageobject
imagedata fileref=myfunc.c format=linespecific/
/imageobject
/inlinemediaobject
What is the correct markup for a keyword like 'while' or 'for' in a
programming language?
Is it tokenwhile/token ?
Greetings,
Joachim
According to question 26 in the DocBook Markup FAQ, I tried the following:
--
(Bob Stayton says)
You can use following construct to include external code.
You only need the inlinemediaobject wrapper if you are using 4.1.2.
programlistinginlinemediaobject
Am Samstag, 12. Oktober 2002 12:13 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
exercise
exerciseinfo...as in sectioninfo.../exerciseinfo
setup...information on what is needed to setup the exercise,
student data etc.../setup
scenario.../scenario
task
Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 17:25 schrieb Stephan Wiesner:
exercises with the same solution. I then developed a style sheet to
create documents with the exercises displayed in the text flow and the
solutions at the end (both linked), or not at all, depending on the
purpose.
This is exactly
Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 18:25 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Perhaps these might be useful? (or something similar)...
exercise
exerciseinfo...as in sectioninfo.../exerciseinfo
setup...information on what is needed to setup the exercise,
student data etc.../setup
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
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
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
Suppose I write a sentence like
A *process* is a programm in execution.
The word process should be emphasized in both the HTML and the PDF version.
Later, whenever I speak of processes, I want to have a link to the
definition above (in the HTML version). Moreover, the word process should
Hello,
I'm just wondering why there is no special markup for exercises in DocBook,
when there's something as specialized as a DestructorSynopsis which you can
only use when you write about an OO language that has support for
destructors.
I know, I can simulate exercise with para
Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2002 10:26 schrieb Bob Stayton:
You can browse it all at:
http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/index.html
is there a downloadable version?
greetings,
j.
Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2002 18:50 schrieb Bob Stayton:
Making FO is the easy part. 8^)
Getting good PDF with the free FO processors is the hard part.
i'd be glad to get at least *some* PDF out of it. :-)
i didn't manage to install PassiveTex yet (under linux). it was too
complicated for
hello,
(maybe this has been asked here a 1000 times, but i can't find it in the FAQ)
i've finally produced my first DocBook document. now i want to transform it
into nice looking pdf. the output must be of high qualitiy because someday it
will go into print.
what's more worth learning: DSSSL
Am Sonntag, 22. September 2002 11:33 schrieb Jirka Kosek:
You can use role attribute for distinguish normal section from goal,
e.g.
section role=goal
...
/section
This allows you to process your document selectively and doesn't enforce
you to modify DocBook and stylesheets.
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