RE: DOCBOOK: using openjade w/DocBook distribution

2002-07-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
If I remember correctly, you just need to `throw it into the command line [immediately] before [the] XML file-to-be-transformed'. -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 11:54 AM To: Phillip Shelton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: DOCBOOK: using openjade w/DocBook distribution

2002-07-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
Yes your command line is wrong. You need to add the xml.dcl file just prior to your .xml file. I no longer have a working DocBook set up on my machine so I can not help with where this file will be. Phill -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 16

RE: DOCBOOK: Which conversion method should I use?

2002-06-18 Thread Phillip Shelton
beginpage is a legacy tag. I mean it is used to mark where the origianl document had a page break not where you want a new document to have a page break. Suggestion, use chapter and section tags and have the required depth start on a new page? Phill. -Original Message- From: Jose [ma

RE: DOCBOOK: howto add icons to para

2002-03-25 Thread Phillip Shelton
Try using a role on a note and tweeking the stylesheet Phill -Original Message- From: Grobe, Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 25 March 2002 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCBOOK: howto add icons to para What is used for making paragraphs that would stand out as a

RE: DOCBOOK: Re: class extends superclass

2002-03-24 Thread Phillip Shelton
Don't know about interfaces (not being a C++ or java programmer I am not sure what is meant by the term) but Simula is a OO language, with classes, inheritance, hidden and protected attributes, virtual functions. Simula is derived from AGOL 60. The first standard was Simula 67, and the latest is

RE: DOCBOOK: Table numbering in

2002-03-19 Thread Phillip Shelton
Which set of style sheets are you using.  At one stage the DSSSL sheets had this problem if the top level element was not a recognised book division. -Original Message-From: James Ots [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 11:04 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subjec

FW: DOCBOOK: depreciation of

2001-11-27 Thread Phillip Shelton
Silly me. That is what the mediaobject is. > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 10:54 > To: DocBook list (E-mail) > Subject: DOCBOOK: depreciation of > > > DocBook 4.1.2 has the tag

DOCBOOK: depreciation of

2001-11-27 Thread Phillip Shelton
DocBook 4.1.2 has the tag as a top level child of table. Are you going to add to table or are you thinking that an image should not be being able to be put there?

RE: DOCBOOK: XML Schemas and docbook documents

2001-11-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
Some of us are still using SGML tools to transform with. And we are not going to give up lightly on them either. > -Original Message- > Looking at this URL: > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/schema/index.html > > It appears the docbook DTD has been transformed into various >

RE: DOCBOOK: Names and addresses

2001-11-13 Thread Phillip Shelton
Looks fine to me. > -Original Message- > I think we can break "personname" out of this: > > personname ::= > ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername)+) > > Then authors (editors, etc) might have this content model: > > author ::= > ((personname, personblurb, affiliation

DOCBOOK: RE: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert ex ternal files

2001-11-13 Thread Phillip Shelton
y, 13 November 2001 23:48 > To: Phillip Shelton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject > to insert > ex ternal files > > > / Phillip Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | But that does not work for forma

DOCBOOK: RE: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert ex ternal files

2001-11-12 Thread Phillip Shelton
But that does not work for formalequation or informalequation > -Original Message- > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2001 11:15 > To: Phillip Shelton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Exten

RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert external files

2001-11-12 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- [snip] > > I had imagined that the 'fileref' or 'entityref' attributes would be > > sufficient. In any context, > > > > > > > > would insert the contents of somefile.txt as unparsed text (to > > whatever extent that textobject is used). Likewise, in any context: >

RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
wrong impression of DocBook if it were hardcopy. > -Original Message- > From: Dave Pawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 4:37 > To: Phillip Shelton; 'Poet/Joshua Drake'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook boo

RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-28 Thread Phillip Shelton
It is in need of heavy review and editing. I do not mind pointing out errors as I find then, (But would like to know where the best place to send this would be?) But in its present state it is not worth hardcopy publishing. > -Original Message- > From: Poet/Joshua Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Phillip Shelton
But they are both written with linux directly in mind. :-/ > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 8:52 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on M

RE: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Phillip Shelton
Try this page for one set of instructions for jade and DSSSL http://www.jimweller.net/jim/dbxmlqs/ and this page for XSLT processing http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/index.html > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 26 Oc

RE: Re: DOCBOOK: Implementing DocBook on MS-DOS/Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Phillip Shelton
I use jade and the DSSSL stylesheets to publish DocBook 4.1.2 XML > -Original Message- > Derek, > > What do you use to convert the sgml text file to a > publishable form such as an > .rtf or a .pdf formatted file? > > ==> Bob > > Forward Header

FW: Antwort: RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-22 Thread Phillip Shelton
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 1:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations. >> I'm at least generally aware of MathML. But it's not part of >> the DocBook core, and I'd like support for equations to be part of the

RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-22 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > You're not supposed to put generated files under revision control; just the > source and the script (or whatever) that generates the files. Um, I wasn't. Each equation at present needs its own source. Each source is only 16-140 char's long. Here are my first two e

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

2001-10-21 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > 1. What markup is technically required to support online help and >other similar "documents"? (I think we should be looking at >"topic-based", "non-linear" markup more generally than just online >help, although that's clearly a significant application.)

RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-21 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > / Phillip Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | I suppose I want to know Why this restriction. > > With respect to equations: > > 1. Equation and InformalEquation only contain graphics. That's because >there'

RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-21 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > It's a quagmire really. If you need something robust today, > AFAIK, the best > option is still to do math markup in latex and do a more or > less automatic > generation of presentation formats (TIFF, PNG, EPS, whathaveyou). But I am a little wary of having lot

RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-21 Thread Phillip Shelton
First, thankyou Mark, for stating the RFE much better then I would have. > -Original Message- > But I could live with support for inline and displayed > equations, which > contain PCDATA (which gets me the ISO math symbols), and sub- and > superscripts. If I got to wish for more, I'd

RE: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-18 Thread Phillip Shelton
By the way, the displayed equations in RTF from XML via dsssl are not centred. Even if I have align="centre" on the . Phill > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 14:41 > To: DocBook list (E-mail)

FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-18 Thread Phillip Shelton
of and do not allow an element with #PCDATA in it as the only element. I could just not mark up the equation but feel that is wasting the intent of XML. Phill > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 14:31 >

RE: DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-18 Thread Phillip Shelton
Or, rather, what tag can I use if all I want and need is a inside a . I have no use for a external file. If no, WHY??? > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 14:23 > To: DocBook list (E-mail) > S

DOCBOOK: Equations.

2001-10-18 Thread Phillip Shelton
Am I missing anything? I want to use a . It appears that I have to have a second file with the actual equation in it to be able to do this. Is there any way to have the body of the equation only defined in my original XML ??? Phill -

DOCBOOK: Table problems

2001-10-17 Thread Phillip Shelton
I am using Jade and the DSSSL1.73 style sheets against DocBook4.1.2 XML to produce .RTF I have two tables one after the other and they both render as Table 0: Here is the XML file and the png is a picture of the resultant RTF file. Table problems The first table

RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Page footers and Headers.

2001-10-17 Thread Phillip Shelton
Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > / Phillip Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > | I want to put The company name in the header and the > filename and author in > > | the footer. > > > > The filename isn't available to Jade, so I

DOCBOOK: Top level divisions.

2001-10-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
latex has an article class and a report class in its documenttype declarations. Would both of these be articles in DocBook? Phill To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager:

DOCBOOK: Page footers and Headers.

2001-10-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
I want to put The company name in the header and the filename and author in the footer. I have looked at dbcompon.dsl but at the moment all that does is make my head hurt. Is there a hardcopy that I could get my hands onto that would help with getting a grip on how docbook and DSSSL work togethe

RE: DOCBOOK: CALS table

2001-10-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
I think I meant foot notes to a table and therefore am asking does the exchange model allow for footnotes? > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Shelton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 18:49 > To: DocBook list (E-mail) > Subject: DOCBOOK: CALS tab

DOCBOOK: CALS table

2001-10-15 Thread Phillip Shelton
Just read the intro to the xml exchange DTD and am wondering, if the model does not allow table footers how should a legacy doc that does have tables with footers be tagged. It looks like there is information being lost due to the adopted table model.

RE: DOCBOOK: Font size

2001-10-08 Thread Phillip Shelton
I managed to find my way and have made my first customisation. Thank you for putting up with my musings. > -Original Message- > > >Font size is a style sheet affect or a toolset effect? > > To answer my own question, it is a stylesheet affect. > > Further poking has me asking ``Do I ch

RE: DOCBOOK: Font size

2001-10-08 Thread Phillip Shelton
>Font size is a style sheet affect or a toolset effect? To answer my own question, it is a stylesheet affect. Further poking has me asking ``Do I change dbparams.dsl directly or should I write a driver?'' Because for my current use of $mono-seq$, i.e. varname, I don't want to scale the font s

DOCBOOK: Font size

2001-10-08 Thread Phillip Shelton
Font size is a style sheet affect or a toolset effect? Phillip To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager:

DOCBOOK: TDG 2.0.2

2001-10-07 Thread Phillip Shelton
There are some spelling mistakes in this version. Also, you will need to update the section on Classname. On this page you say that there are no tags for methods, but you then have methodname, and methodparam as tags. To subscribe

DOCBOOK: Typo in TGD?

2001-10-01 Thread Phillip Shelton
file tgd/en/simplelist.html Should the attribute have quotes around its value? Jade and nsgmls complain about an attribute value specification must be an attribute value literal unless SHORTAG YES is specified. My test.xml file is Title Title 2 Some text that introduces the list:

RE: DOCBOOK: [ #456174 ] Req: a within

2001-09-24 Thread Phillip Shelton
> Another obvious possibility is to let the stylesheet take care of > the collation. You need someway of marking up the difference between 1990-2000 and 1990,2000 Phill To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscri

RE: DOCBOOK: Corrections?

2001-08-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
Further to the previous email, on the same page, ... Pernicious Mixed Content The content model of the Entry element exhibits a nasty peculiarity that we call "pernicious mixed content".[19] Every other element in DocBook contains either block elements or inline elements (including #PCDATA) un

DOCBOOK: Corrections?

2001-08-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
In looking at this page; http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/entry.html I noticed this. ... Processing expectations This element is expected to obey the semantics of the CALS Table Model Document Type Definition, as specified by OASIS Technical Memorandum TM 9502:1995 . The content of Entry is form

RE: DOCBOOK: Very Basic Question Re: DSSSL+XML

2001-08-08 Thread Phillip Shelton
Yes. > -Original Message- > From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2001 11:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DOCBOOK: Very Basic Question Re: DSSSL+XML > > > > Is it possible to parse well-formed XML with DSSSL? > > DSL > > ---

DOCBOOK: FIXME in TDG?

2001-07-31 Thread Phillip Shelton
http://docbook.org/tdg/html/ch01.html#d44e565 The OASIS era In February, [FIXME: remove this note when this really happens; point to the announcement.] OASIS made DocBook SGML V4.1 and DocBook XML V4.1.2 official OASIS Specifications. Development continues, with: Has this been fixed? --

RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names

2001-06-21 Thread Phillip Shelton
> other names: secondary personal names that may be given, but are not > necessarily common with other family members. The "middle" > name common in > the US is an example. Onomastically, such a name may be a > "given name" or a > "surname" (my middle name, for example, is my mothers maiden surn

RE: DOCBOOK: DocBook XML V4.1.2<==Will not Execute?

2001-06-20 Thread Phillip Shelton
Your on windows. Docbook.cat is a text file that maps web addresses to files on your system that docbook uses. You will also need to down load a SGML/XML parser, jade, and a text formater, like TeX or Saxon The following are snips from other posts that answer the type of question you are asking

RE: DOCBOOK: Spam harvested from list

2001-03-08 Thread Phillip Shelton
I got a spam too. Mine was sent from softpage > -Original Message- > > Did other people get this same spam? > > Yes, I got one. I don't know if it was the same, though. Is there any > reason you didn't mention the name of the sender? --

RE: DOCBOOK: Bug at SGML DTD? Or at DSSSL stylesheets?

2001-01-10 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > / Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | > There are three schools of thought on this issue: > | > > | > 1. Figures (and other block-ish) things should appear in paras. > | > 2. Figures should not appear in paras. > | > 3. Figures should appear in pa

RE: DOCBOOK: text coloring

2001-01-09 Thread Phillip Shelton
I don't think role has valid values as default. You have to customise them in. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: text coloring > > > on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at