Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: double enclosure?

2001-08-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:06 08/08/2001, Jirka Kosek wrote: > don't forget that when specifying string >literals in XSLT you must double enclose them: > > Curiosity, what are the principles of either double enclosure or not, as used in the stylesheets? Must admit I've never been sure. Is it simply to get a stri

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Jirka Kosek
"Bradford, Denis" wrote: > > jeez, I only got htmlhelp.xsl working about a week ago. But since we're all > flying by the seat of our pants - the operative word is 'flying' - attached > is the entirety of my customizations so far. The code is commented > throughout, hope the changes make sense. >

DOCBOOK-APPS: Limitation in DocBook SGML

2001-08-08 Thread Peter Toft
An oldie - but goodie is the setup of the pdftex for SGML/DocBook (on Linux systems). This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) (bog.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg] JadeTeX 1999/06/29: 2.7 I have extended several of the entries in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf but in th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using FOP 0.19-CVS to create PDF

2001-08-08 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | / Jeff Rancier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | | building formatting object tree | | Error in height property value '$height': | | org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyExcepti | | on: illegal character Bug. | | ERROR: fo:inline can't be di

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Jirka Kosek
Dan York wrote: > 3. Any other pointers or tips that people may have from working with > Norm's HTML Help stylesheets? Some basic documentation can be found in htmlhelp/doc directory in XSL stylesheets distribution. I also published slides about generating HTMLHelp and JavaHelp from DocBook

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Jirka Kosek
Dan York wrote: > Several people have now clued me in that the HTML Help XSL stylesheets > were created by Jirka Kosek (to sit on top of Norm's HTML stylesheets) and > indeed I found his name in the ChangeLog and all over the stylesheets. > So my apologies for not giving credit where it was due.

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Bradford, Denis
jeez, I only got htmlhelp.xsl working about a week ago. But since we're all flying by the seat of our pants - the operative word is 'flying' - attached is the entirety of my customizations so far. The code is commented throughout, hope the changes make sense. FWIW, I'm using a variant of Norm's

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Bradford, Denis
Correction to previous message: the link I sent was the URL I was looking at, but somehow doesn't work as a link. Try this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/tools/htmlhelp/ch m/hh1start.htm Then click the link to HTML Help Downloads at the bottom of the page.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: graphics paths in htmlhelp.xsl

2001-08-08 Thread Norman Walsh
/ "Bradford, Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Simply eliminating subfolders seems to fix the problem, but it's not a | pretty solution. Am I running afoul of the infamous entity resolver problem? No, this isn't an entity resolution issue. The relative URIs that you use in your entit

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Ali Saffari
> 2. Linux? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I > know, HTML Help is > for Windoze only. > HTML Help is produced to be read on Windoze, but it would still be quite neat, if you could create it on UNIX. Specially for us it would make things much easyer. Imagine your complete documen

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Of course, I suppose another approach would be to put the CSS inside of | the HTML file... That's increasingly what I do. | In any event, that is why I implemented the shading in the stylesheets | instead of CSS. There is no dependence on anoth

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Bradford, Denis
Jirka has indeed created a nifty piece of work. I'm not much farther along than you are, but can respond to a few items: 1. Download Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/h tml/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp . Just open the gen

DOCBOOK-APPS: OpenJade on Solaris

2001-08-08 Thread Ali Saffari
Hi! We are trying to produce RTF output out of our documentation. Everything works fine on Windows and Linux. But our nightly build process runs on a SUN-Solaris box. Sorry for beeing a little off topic, but saidly I couldn't find anything on the OpenJade mailing lists :-( So I expected the mos

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: graphics paths in htmlhelp.xsl

2001-08-08 Thread Bradford, Denis
We're using entityrefs rather than filerefs for graphics and inlinegraphics. We declare the entities using relative pathnames. Somehow, htmlhelp.xsl is resolving these entity refs to full pathnames. For example, a reference to in the XML becomes in the HTML. In this configur

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Dan York
> Without really having a clue about what I was doing, I generated (from > my DocBook XML source) a set of HTML Help files using Norm's htmlhelp > XSL stylesheets, zipped them up and sent them off to the folks there. Several people have now clued me in that the HTML Help XSL stylesheets were cre

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Dan York
Answering one of my own questions... > 1. Are there any free/open-source apps that can take HTML Help files > and generate this single CHM file? If not free/oss, are there > any utilities that Microsoft supplies that do this? I did not find any free/open-source apps, but MS does have t

DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating CHM HTML Help files from DocBook?

2001-08-08 Thread Dan York
Folks, Now that we (e-smith) are part of Mitel Networks, I have been working with their documentation folks to bring our docs in line with what they are doing. They turn out to mostly use tools like RoboHelp to generate Microsoft HTML Help or RoboHelp "WebHelp" files. Without really having a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL customisation examples

2001-08-08 Thread Bob McIlvride
"Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" wrote: > I'm looking for links to DSSSL customisation style sheets to see how to do > various things (and also just to see what can be done). We have a short how-to and an example of our customization layer at: http://24.112.178.91/cogent/prepdoc/pd-customizingthedsss

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread k. holwerda
Hi, I must be missing something, but i thought XSLT stylesheets are there to transform to HTML or any other XML alike, why add another stylesheets to do the last part? If docbook was a really high level description of data, but it is not, it is for books in general, and therefore comes close to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:04:54AM -0400, Dan York wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:20:38PM -0400, Jon Willeke wrote: > > If you're only concerned about HTML, use a CSS stylesheet. My preference > > is to shade screens, but not programlistings, so I use the following: > > The issue for the L