DOCBOOK: Re: Inserting raw HTML

2002-03-26 Thread Norman Walsh
ic-id: %html-pubid%) (empty-sosofo)) doc-sosofo) doc-sosofo If that escapes all the special characters, which I think it might, I'd try (make formatting-instruction data: (include-file "...")). If that doesn't work, well, there&#x

DOCBOOK: Re: Referencing an external SVG document

2002-03-24 Thread Norman Walsh
ediaobject or inlinemediaobject for your SVG diagram. If that doesn't work, let me know. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | How can there be laughter, how can http://www.oasis-o

DOCBOOK: Re: Bug tag?

2002-03-24 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | A man may fulfill the object of http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | his existence by asking a question Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | he cannot answer,

DOCBOOK: Re: class extends superclass

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | An ill-humoured man is a prisoner http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | at the mercy of an enemy from whom Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | he can never escape.--Sa'di

DOCBOOK: Re: class extends superclass

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Walsh
It's not a major problem, just a minor | annoyance and inconsistency. What would you prefer, ? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Many who find the day too long, http://w

DOCBOOK: Re: class extends superclass

2002-03-22 Thread Norman Walsh
specific to a given programming language. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | No man's knowledge here can go http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | beyond his experience.--John Locke Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: Help please: new user questions

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Walsh
t to work. What messages do you get from Jade? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "Bother", said Pooh, as he deleted http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | his root dir

DOCBOOK: Re: Codepoint attribute for character elements

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
cter element is to allow people to use names; if you really want to use codepoints, can't you just use numeric character references? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Res

DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
/ [2] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2CR1/ [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook-4.2-CR1.html -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | There is no excellent beauty that http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | hath not some strangeness in the Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Please use docbook-apps for processing questions

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
don't worry about it if you're not sure. But if you think it's about the stylesheets or some other aspect of processing with a specific tool, please use the -apps list. -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | A new scientific truth does not http://www.oasis-open.org/

DOCBOOK: Re: mirror margins and two-pages

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
OpenJade or XSL. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | A man is not necessarily http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | intelligent because he has plenty Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | o

DOCBOOK: Re: Colwidth attribute of colspec not processed?

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
(Ljava/lang/String;)F not found | Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported Uh, try a more recent version of the Java VM? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Any idiot can f

DOCBOOK: Re: Numbering titles of sections

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
ng you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Until death, it is all http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | life.--Cervantes Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: Problem with table that spans multiple pages

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
f the table isn't properly formatted (lines are sticking out). | - The header of the table is missing a line on the top. These are formatting choices (or bugs :-) made by the folks at RenderX, you'll have to ask them. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK: Re: Alternatives to CalloutList

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
e case where you want the same callout number to appear twice (and have semantically the meaning of "is the same" not "is a reference to") in the same programlisting. Be seeing you, norm -- Norm

DOCBOOK: Re: Alternatives to CalloutList

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
inks. Of course you will need | to customize stylesheets to support this correctly by inserting bulleted | numbers of whatever else you prefer. Uh, I think that should work already. Just use xref. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK: Re: How to keep information on one page?

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
to keep together. That should work, though some FO processors may not support it. And, of course, if the stuff is longer than a physical page, you'll probably get a page break anyway. :-) Be seeing you, norm --

DOCBOOK: Re: Templates for SQL database table doc

2002-03-20 Thread Norman Walsh
ose features are? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | O for a Muse of fire, that would http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | ascend / The brightest heaven of Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | invent

DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 19 Mar 2002

2002-03-19 Thread Norman Walsh
, 03:00JST+) for | one hour. | | Agenda | | 1. Roll call Dick Hamilton Nancy (Paisner) Harrison Paul Grosso (prospective) Sabine Ocker Michael Smith Bob Stayton Norman Walsh Regrets Dennis Evans Meeting called to order, 13:02EST. | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous

DOCBOOK: Re: [docbook-tc] Revised DocBook TC Meeting Agenda: 19 Mar2002

2002-03-19 Thread Norman Walsh
Dick Hamilton Nancy (Paisner) Harrison Paul Grosso (prospective) Sabine Ocker Michael Smith Bob Stayton Norman Walsh Regrets Dennis Evans Meeting called to order, 13:02EST. | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting Accepted. | 3. Review of the agenda None. | 4

DOCBOOK: Announce: XML Character Entities V0.2

2002-03-19 Thread Norman Walsh
The DocBook TC has published XML Character Entities V0.2[1] Be seeing you, norm [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/0.2/ -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Abandoning rhyme and fixed

DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook HTML Forms Module V1.1

2002-03-19 Thread Norman Walsh
The DocBook HTML Forms Module V1.1 has been published[1]. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/htmlforms/1.1/index.shtml -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debugging

DOCBOOK: Re: SVG in DocBook

2002-03-14 Thread Norman Walsh
mbo until the W3C SVG WG publishes a properly modularized SVG DTD. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The First Amendment is often http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | inconvenient

DOCBOOK: Re: Extra Spaces Caused by s

2002-03-06 Thread Norman Walsh
t if you put indexterms or some other tag on each of those lines :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Curiosity never killed anything http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | except m

DOCBOOK: Re: Forcing a Line Feed

2002-03-06 Thread Norman Walsh
ant to do this? What is the significance of the newline after the image? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The sense of existence is the http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | greate

DOCBOOK: Re: Extra Spaces Caused by s

2002-03-05 Thread Norman Walsh
data-parallel operation data-parallel operation data-parallel operation data-parallel operation data-parallel operation ending here? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <

DOCBOOK: Re: xml to pdf

2002-03-05 Thread Norman Walsh
norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Curiosity never killed anything http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | except maybe a few hours. Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | The ebxml-dev list is spo

DOCBOOK: Re: don't want page break in html print out

2002-03-05 Thread Norman Walsh
docbook.xsl. If you're using DSSSL, enable nochunks. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Man is an intellectual animal, and http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | therefore an ever

DOCBOOK: Re: programlistingco tag

2002-03-05 Thread Norman Walsh
e link here ... What processor are you using to produce output? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | All along the untrodden paths of http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | the

DOCBOOK: Re: MathML in DocBook

2002-03-04 Thread Norman Walsh
norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | No man's knowledge here can go http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | beyond his experience.--John Locke Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files

2002-02-28 Thread Norman Walsh
p concerns. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | He would like to start from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | scratch. Where is scratch?--Elias Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | Canetti

DOCBOOK: Re: What markup for a username or group id?

2002-02-28 Thread Norman Walsh
you use role in the short term. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Time wounds all heels. http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: title vs. citetitle and ulink in biblioentry

2002-02-28 Thread Norman Walsh
he title of the work, not the title of the work, at least in some sense) occurred after TDG was written and I haven't fixed the examples (yet). Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-28 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh writes: | |> / Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: |> | That puts the burden on the user to verify manually that the nesting is |> | correct. Wasn't that what DTD's were

DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-21 Thread Norman Walsh
the TOC by hand. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Where are you dying http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | tonight?--Evelyn Waugh Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook tutorials

2002-02-21 Thread Norman Walsh
fine, but I'd like to know about it :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It does not do harm to the mystery http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to know a little about it.

DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-20 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | I like the simplicity of it, but if we go with it, I think it might be | useful to add a "class" attribute on Tocentry, with an enumerated list | of values that correspon

DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook filename extension

2002-02-19 Thread Norman Walsh
e seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Note: you are currently using an http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | unregistered evaluation copy of Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | your life. Register now for the

DOCBOOK: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 Feb 2002

2002-02-19 Thread Norman Walsh
call Sabine Ocker Bob Stayton Norman Walsh, Chair Absent: Dennis Evans Nancy (Paisner) Harrison Michael Smith Regrets: Dick Hamilton Failed to achieve quorum. Meeting abandoned at 1:30p EST. Be seeing you

DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-19 Thread Norman Walsh
entrys: My Toc Chapter One Section One Section Two Section Two.One Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Success is relative; it is what we http://www.oasis-open.org/docbo

DOCBOOK: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-18 Thread Norman Walsh
manual ToC for an application where this would be insufficient (assume we carry forward the appropriate pageno and linking attributes)? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The people wh

DOCBOOK: Re: Content model of too restrictive

2002-02-16 Thread Norman Walsh
rzealous in reducing the content model of several elements (option among them). DocBook 4.2 will have the broader content model again. DocBook 4.2 beta 2 should be out next week. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Wa

DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook filename extension

2002-02-16 Thread Norman Walsh
ppose if you imagine a fully-RDF'd (or topic-mapped, I'm agnostic) world, you can imagine even fancier things. My two, uh, cents. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The

DOCBOOK: Re: and HTML

2002-02-15 Thread Norman Walsh
bug in the style sheets? |> |> |> |> |> Some text |> |> Possibly. What HTML does the stylesheet produce? | Is this the right list to ask this question on? This is really a docbook-apps question. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK: Re: gui elements

2002-02-15 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It is as bad as you think. And http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | they are out to get you. Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: Modular Documentation

2002-02-08 Thread Norman Walsh
ent manuals is a much different problem than trying to reuse paragraphs. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | People often say that this or that http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | pe

DOCBOOK: Re: newbie table colspec colwidth question

2002-02-08 Thread Norman Walsh
work in the stylesheets. If you give a column an explicit width, like "3in", it doesn't count towards the relative units. But it does reduce the entire table width available by 3in. Be seeing you, nor

DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-08 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:47:41PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: |> / Rory Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: |> | Something like, mediawidth vs. reproductionwidth (but not to pretentious)? |> |> I take y

DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-07 Thread Norman Walsh
es are reproductionwidth and reproductiondepth. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | We think in generalities, but we http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | live in detail--Alfred North Ch

DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-07 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | At 08:43 07/02/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: | |>content-width="3in" says the image (before scaling) should be 3in |>wide. width="3in" says that the area reserved for presentation of the |>image (irrespec

DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 480957: Proposal: Improve name and address markup

2002-02-07 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh writes: | |> | | This content model is still very much tied to a particular culture or | three. Weren't there some ideas to allow character data directly in | personname? I've always thought this ma

DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-07 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: |> / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: |> | On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: [...] |> If I say content-width="

DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 513426: Text alternative for tables

2002-02-06 Thread Norman Walsh
owsers something to say before the reader goes to the trouble of getting his software to decipher all the rows and columns. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Society is immo

DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-06 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: |> I propose that we add four additional attributes to DocBook graphic |> elements: content-width, content-depth, align, and valign | | ImageData only ever occurs within

DOCBOOK: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-06 Thread Norman Walsh
ot;right"). valign If the scaled content size is shorter than the specified depth, the image will be aligned within the depth according to this value (one of "top", "middle", or "bottom"). Be seeing

DOCBOOK: Added proposals to DocBook SourceForge

2002-02-06 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "Abstraction, abstraction and http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | abstraction." This is the answer Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | to the question, "What are the

DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 440667: Remove corpname

2002-02-06 Thread Norman Walsh
atus (eg. Debian) Is Debian really an informal organization in the US? I'd have guessed they were a nonprofit, but I take your point. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | You mu

DOCBOOK: Re: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files

2002-02-05 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It is as easy for the strong man http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to be strong, as it is for the Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | weak to be weak.--Emerson

DOCBOOK: RFE 513426: Text alternative for tables

2002-02-05 Thread Norman Walsh
: Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | There is nothing which human http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | courage will not undertake, and Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | little that human patienc

DOCBOOK: RFE 440667: Remove corpname

2002-02-05 Thread Norman Walsh
|other) #IMPLIED otherclass CDATA#IMPLIED and remove corpname in DocBook V6.0 Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | We do not know what thoughts http://www

DOCBOOK: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files

2002-02-05 Thread Norman Walsh
a separate proposal :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | We have fewer friends than we http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | imagine, but more than we Chair, DocBook Technical

DOCBOOK: Re: The DocBook community thanks Norm

2002-02-05 Thread Norman Walsh
, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Impatient people always arrive too http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | late.--Jean Dutourd Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: Problem with latest CVS: reference to undeclared ent ity

2002-02-03 Thread Norman Walsh
source at the moment, but you can read the book online at http://docbook.org/ Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | One should never make one's debut http://www.oasis-open.or

DOCBOOK: Re: linuxdoc to docbook migration

2002-02-01 Thread Norman Walsh
it's been used to typeset scientific texts. Now, that said, you've got a piece of software with heavily scientific documentation, which is at least uncommon. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAI

DOCBOOK: Re: linuxdoc to docbook migration

2002-01-30 Thread Norman Walsh
and superscripts, and a few other symbols. No reason why that couldn't be text. This adds weight to the argument in favor of adding text as an alternative in inline equations and equations. Be seeing you, no

DOCBOOK: Re: Looking for a tag analogous to HTML's

2002-01-29 Thread Norman Walsh
apps/200201/msg00370.html -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | What is more wonderful than the http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | delight which the mind feels when Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | it *knows*? This delight is not | for anything b

DOCBOOK: Re: macros

2002-01-24 Thread Norman Walsh
struct. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Life is pain...anyone who tells http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | you differently is selling Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | something.--Wesley (The Princess | Bride)

DOCBOOK: Re: Highlighting table entries.

2002-01-17 Thread Norman Walsh
attribute on the entry, or a processing instruction, or even role attributes on markup in the cell. But you'll need to do a little stylesheet work to get any of these to produce the output you need. Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK: Re: Adding metainfo to more places

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh writes: | |> The DocBook TC has had several discussions about additional places in |> DocBook where it would be beneficial to allow metainfo. Our current |> candidate list of places is: |> |> equa

DOCBOOK: Re: I need a suggestion on how to mark up references to notes.

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
. I suggest or possibly . Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Yeah, we could do that, but it http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | would open Pandora's can of Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | worms.--Terry Allen

DOCBOOK: Re: I need a suggestion on how to mark up references to notes.

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
ut loosing generality | for several reasons. | | What's the best way to mark up note 144? What's the content model of the note? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | So

DOCBOOK: Re: Merging meta info wrappers

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
world, one could probably do that. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Everything we love, no doubt, will http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | pass away, perhaps tomorrow, Chair, DocBo

DOCBOOK: Image scaling (was Re: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 15 Jan2002)

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
ts say). | Opinions ? We have all the attributes we need, and we need all the attributes we have. (That some of this is presentational and not strictly semantic is something we have to live with, I think.) Be seeing you,

DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook Mailing List Guidelines

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh writes: | |> Do Not Post Attachments |> |> Since mailing lists have in the past been unwittingly used for |> spreading viruses in e-mail attachments, all e-mail attachments are |> banned from the Do

DOCBOOK: Merging meta info wrappers

2002-01-15 Thread Norman Walsh
. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | My dog is worried about the http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | economy because Alpo is up to 99 Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | cents a can. That's a

DOCBOOK: Adding metainfo to more places

2002-01-15 Thread Norman Walsh
solicited. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The happiest people seem to be http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | those that have no particular Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | reas

DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 15 Jan 2002

2002-01-15 Thread Norman Walsh
| DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 Jan 2002 | | | Agenda | | 1. Roll call Dick Hamilton Nancy (Paisner) Harrison Sabine Ocker Michael Smith Bob Stayton Norman Walsh Absent: Dennis Evans Resigned: Patricia Gee-Best

DOCBOOK: DocBook Mailing List Guidelines

2002-01-15 Thread Norman Walsh
-+ |http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl |DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets| +-+-----+ |http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl|DocBook XSL Stylesheets | +-+-+ Contact If you have any questions or problems, please conta

DOCBOOK: Re: Translation help

2002-01-11 Thread Norman Walsh
k xh zh_cn Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | We make out of the quarrel with http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | others, rhetoric, but out of the Chair, DocBook Technical Committe

DOCBOOK: Re: Inline code fragments

2002-01-11 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The First Amendment is often http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | inconvenient. But that is besides Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | the point. Inconvenience does not

DOCBOOK: Re: section.class parameter entity

2002-01-09 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The formula 'Two and two make http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | five' is not without its Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | attractions.--Dostoevsky

DOCBOOK: Re: section.class parameter entity

2002-01-09 Thread Norman Walsh
Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It is not failure of others to http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | appreciate your abilities that Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | should trouble you, but rather | your

DOCBOOK: Translation help

2002-01-09 Thread Norman Walsh
nderstand, widely useful, and very popular DTD. Dozens of organizations are using DocBook for millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online formats, worldwide. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Wa

DOCBOOK: Re: Transforming SGML

2002-01-09 Thread Norman Walsh
t file | contains the equation: Footnotes are processed in footnote-mode; so you may need to add some of your custom functionality in that mode as well. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

DOCBOOK: Re: Transforming SGML

2002-01-08 Thread Norman Walsh
e to the graphic. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | When told of a man who had http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | acquired great wealth, a sage Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: Announce: Simplified DocBook, Slides, Website updated

2002-01-08 Thread Norman Walsh
vable (Not found). %@$@$#?! Fixed. :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The common excuse of those who http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | bring misfortune on others is that Chair, DocBo

DOCBOOK: Re: Transforming SGML

2002-01-08 Thread Norman Walsh
he DSSSL standard, but not with Jade. (Jade doesn't implement the transformation language portion of DSSSL.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Any bureaucracy reorganized

DOCBOOK: Re: Transforming SGML

2002-01-08 Thread Norman Walsh
me we added equations to DocBook, there was no markup for mathematics, so the only alternative was to allow graphics for the equation content. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The

DOCBOOK: Announce: Simplified DocBook, Slides, Website updated

2002-01-07 Thread Norman Walsh
, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | All professional men are http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | handicapped by not being allowed Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | to ignore things which are | useless.--Goethe

DOCBOOK: [Norman Walsh ] Re: on learning theory anddistributed knowledge systems

2002-01-03 Thread Norman Walsh
and it is somewhat to hurt my | feeling that it be regarded as spam. Please accept my appologies. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The best people usually owe their http://nwalsh.c

DOCBOOK: Re: on learning theory and distributed knowledge systems

2002-01-03 Thread Norman Walsh
ng you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | No man's knowledge here can go http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | beyond his experience.--John Locke Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |

DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics

2002-01-03 Thread Norman Walsh
/ "Matt G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >>From: Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>/ "Matt G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to whine: >>I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. [...] | the two former. What

DOCBOOK: Re: A new element for authorgroup ?

2002-01-03 Thread Norman Walsh
norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | If someone tells you he is going http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to make 'a realistic decision', Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | you immediately understand that he

DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics (Re[2]: listitem)

2002-01-03 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Seems like "Associativelist" might be a more accurate name. Isn't a | Variablelist basically the same thing as a Lisp/Scheme "alist" -- just | a list of associ

DOCBOOK: Re: Glossary

2002-01-02 Thread Norman Walsh
t do any sorting (yet :-). | SGML | | Well! Color me red. You can make them links. Nevermind what I said before. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The shortness of life can neither http:

DOCBOOK: Re: Glossary

2002-01-02 Thread Norman Walsh
ere's no way to make the see and see also terms proper links. Someone could report that, too :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It's all fun and games until http

DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics (Re[2]: listitem)

2001-12-31 Thread Norman Walsh
ound, and wish XalanC | would support XSLT 1.1. I also dearly wish it had a command-line flag | for specifying an SYSTEM id search path (for external entities and DTD | subsets), similar to the '-I' option supported by most C/C++ | compilers!! Check out the XML Catalogs specification and try using p

DOCBOOK: Re: Re[1]: listitem

2001-12-31 Thread Norman Walsh
ems anywhere else, we probably shouldn't bother in segmented lists. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I don't make predictions. I never http://www.oasis-open.org/docbo

DOCBOOK: Re: Markup of Thesaurus [maybe off-topic]

2001-12-29 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Trevor Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> / Trevor Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> | http://www.mda.org.uk/bmobj/Obthess2.htm >> > >> | which shows

DOCBOOK: Re: Markup of Thesaurus [maybe off-topic]

2001-12-28 Thread Norman Walsh
ftware or hardware documentation around? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The perfect man has no method; or http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | rather the best of methods, which

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