Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: generate postscript from docbook xml

2002-01-29 Thread Ian Castle
Better still, you can use openjade 1.3.1 and jadetex 3.12 for generally excellent quality (certainly good enough for real books). http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjade http://sourceforge.net/projects/jadetex You will also need DSSSL stylesheets. To process an XML file you will need the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: free DocBook tools that handle Japanese

2002-01-29 Thread Michael Smith
Hiroki Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: twaugh On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:44:51AM -0600, Michael Smith wrote: twaugh twaugh * XSLT engine: xsltproc (outputs ISO-8859-1 with character references twaugh for the Japanese

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: generate postscript from docbook xml

2002-01-29 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Ian, I'm also using openjade, but it depends which stylesheets Massimiliano wants to use. With openjade he must use dsssl stylesheets... I thought he was looking for a tool to be used with xsl stylesheets... Massimiliano, I agree with Ian: if you plan to use dsssl stylesheets, it would be

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2002-01-29 Thread Jirka Kosek
Allin Cottrell wrote: The xsl version stumbles on some material that is OK in the sgml version. For example: informalequation alt XSL stylesheets needs alt role=tex to take content of alt as TeX math. \begin{eqnarray*} y_t = \alpha + \beta(1/x_t) +

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

2002-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Maden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:43 27-01-2002, Norman Walsh wrote: For any given bibliography style, it's not too hard. But doing anything that works for you and me out of the box is essentially impossible. Hmm... it should be possible to collect code for standard and house

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2002-01-29 Thread Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:33:31PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: The xsl version stumbles on some material that is OK in the sgml version. For example: Of course it stumbles, because what you've presented below is completely invalid XML. :) informalequation alt

DOCBOOK-APPS: sgml2x 0.99.3 released

2002-01-29 Thread Yann Dirson
sgml2x 0.99.3 is now released. This is the second beta version for 1.0. Probably only bugfixes will be integrated until 1.0 comes out. This release addresses all bugs reported though Savannah: the problem with finding a default stylesheet, and the ability to install somewhere else than in

DOCBOOK-APPS: Multilingual DocBook: language handling issues

2002-01-29 Thread David Bovill
There are a few requests locally for multilingual community based sites - to support small groups. I am researching into using a Unicode based front end, with DocBook related tools on the server - perhaps generating PDF's to be stored on the site? Could anyone advise on the issues: an example of

DOCBOOK-APPS: MSXML and IIS transformations

2002-01-29 Thread Bruce Morrison
Hello... Rather than launch into the latest of a seemingly endless list of issues that I seem to be having with dynamically transforming docbook xmlusing the XSL stylesheets and IIS (msxml4), I figured it was better and less painful for everyone else to ask... is anyone doing this? If so,

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread Maggie Strevell
I'm new to all this and recently madea guess at this myself. I am using a section to represent each help topic. The type of driver file (book|chapter|section). I am using the latest htmlhelp.xsl with Instant Saxon to generate the htm files. Maybe those more experienced than I can point me

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Q] Creating a draft watermark in FO

2002-01-29 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Bang, Steinar [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | David Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: | | I'd suggested of using a background image, but was told | that's cheating. | | http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200107/msg00034.html Seems reasonable to me. I've just

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: MSXML and IIS transformations

2002-01-29 Thread Rob Smith
From: Bruce Morrison Basically loading the xml into DOM 1 Loading docbook.xsl into DOM 2 and then (attempting) to spit out the transform using DOM1.transformNode(DOM2) If you're using the HTML stylesheets, the output is not XML so you can't transform to a DOM. Use

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread denisb
-Original Message- From: Maggie Strevell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am using a section to represent each help topic. The type of driver file (book|chapter|section). This looks sensible to me. How come some people recommend article instead of chapter? Is there some advantage I'm

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread Maggie Strevell
I never saw a recommendation for using article, so I don't know of the advantages. Would like to know if there are any. First file is the first section as you thought. I use sect1, sect2, etc.. for section tags and nesting. As for suppressing chunking of subsections, I have no need to do

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2002-01-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jirka Kosek wrote: Replace with amp; or put whole TeX stuff in CDATA section: ![CDATA[...]] Thanks, that works fine. One other observation. Your math.xsl automatically inserts math delimiters ($ for inline and $$ for display) in the PI for xmltex, when it encounters an

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: MSXML and IIS transformations

2002-01-29 Thread Rob Smith
My apologies- I didn't read the question properly! ;( (although you should really use transformNodeToObject(Response) anyway) RobSmith

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking to develop training materials using docbook

2002-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Maden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 13:03 8-01-2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: I am interested currently I am trying to do with Docbook also but as separate files which makes life difficult. You can send me directly or point a location to be downloaded. If sending directly

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread denisb
Thank you both, I think I've got what I need. I use sect1, sect2, etc. I'm interested in using only sections, for the reason that Dave mentions: to avoid a rigid book structure. Norm added a chunk.section.depth parameter to let you control that between 1.47 and 1.48. Great - I missed

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread Jirka Kosek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does 'first file' mean the first section? With recursive sections, you could have a topic with subsections like this, right? section content... sectionSubsection 1.../section sectionSubsection 2.../section sectionSee also.../section

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2002-01-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
-Original Message- On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:33:31PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: The xsl version stumbles on some material that is OK in the sgml version. For example: Of course it stumbles, because what you've presented below is completely invalid XML. :)

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread Michael Smith
Steffen Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Maggie, [...] Prevent the titles for each section from repeating at the top of each section (I only need one) http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/styling/custom.html#d61e810, the section called 14. Table of content, or toc's. It's about xsl

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

2002-01-29 Thread Markus Hoenicka
RefDB stores far more information for a bibliographic reference than just the bibliographic data. As RefDB was designed from the ground up as a collaborative tool, it is necessary to store a part of this information, like personal notes or availability information (i.e. a URL to an electronic