Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Manage project documents with docbook

2002-03-19 Thread Ian Castle
I've used DocBook for the formatting of reports produced from our "ECO" (Engineering Change Control) system which I would have thought is similar to what you want. i.e. data in a "database" (in your case project related stuff, output in a form suitable for conversion to readable/navigable

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: table header on last line

2002-03-19 Thread Ian Castle
Sounds like a jadetex problem to me - that takes care of pagination and, ultimately, all the table layout. There may be some parameter that can be tweaked to cope with that. But I'm not quite sure how the table headers are generated (not with out looking in any case - i.e. is a LaTeX table creati

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Manage project documents with docbook

2002-03-19 Thread Murray Stokely
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:54:31PM +, Martin Gautier wrote: > Have you looked at CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/overview.html). It > will certainly manage your documents for you but I'm not sure about your The SCM system is a very small part of project management, and it doesn't appear

DOCBOOK-APPS: table header on last line

2002-03-19 Thread Tim Terlegård
I've solved most of my customization problems thanks to you guys. There's still one annoying problem though. I've searched the archives, but didn't find anyone with my problem. Funny if it's just me having this problem... When there's no space enough left for a table entry at the bottom of the

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:54 19/03/2002 -0500, Nancy (Paisner) Harrison wrote: >Toolsmiths, including authors who are toolsmiths, tend to prefer 'ease of >processing;' authors who aren't toolsmiths generally prefer 'rules that >make sense.' >>In which case is it another rule that topics should be 'standalone

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting man page references to links

2002-03-19 Thread Bob Stayton
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Bradford, Denis wrote: > Running chunk.html v 1.48 I'm trying to generate a link from the following > citerefentry code: > > file > > The target seems to be coded okay: > > file > ... > > This generates a link, but the target is empty: file > > The s

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread Nancy (Paisner) Harrison
At 06:45 PM 3/19/2002 -0800, Dave Pawson wrote: >At 13:30 19/03/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Dave Pawson: >> >Which would be easier? >> >a)To provide a mini DTD for 'glue' which then becomes a topic, >> >b)Process glue content as a special? >> >>Most glue really isn't appropriate for

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread mpriestl
Dave Pawson: >Which would be easier? >a)To provide a mini DTD for 'glue' which then becomes a topic, >b)Process glue content as a special? Most glue really isn't appropriate for treatment as a topic. Topics are supposed to be independently readable, reusable units of titled information organized

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:30 19/03/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dave Pawson: > >Which would be easier? > >a)To provide a mini DTD for 'glue' which then becomes a topic, > >b)Process glue content as a special? > >Most glue really isn't appropriate for treatment as a topic. I was moving to ease of processing

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Manage project documents with docbook

2002-03-19 Thread Martin Gautier
Eric >>has there been attempts to manage project related documents with docbook? >>I'm looking to manage trees of deliverables (possibly with associated >>action lists). This tree of deliverables is similar to a work breakdown >>structure (WBS) with for each one an owner, time estimate, require

DOCBOOK-APPS: modifying the ouput of docbook sections usingdocbook-xsl-1.49 an d fop-0.20.3

2002-03-19 Thread Bertels, Paul
Hi,       I am using docbook-xsl-1.49 and fop-0.20.3 to produce PDFs. I was wondering if anyone has experience with extending the "fo" portion of docbook-xsl to cause section elements to not be split over multiple pages and to cause section elements to begin new pages.   I have a document o

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting man page references to links

2002-03-19 Thread Bradford, Denis
Running chunk.html v 1.48 I'm trying to generate a link from the following citerefentry code: file The target seems to be coded okay: file ... This generates a link, but the target is empty: file The strange thing is, when I look at inline.xsl, the template that's supposed to do the work is

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread mpriestl
Yep - though it's not a topic (no independent title or subject). Still makes sense to store it as part of the map, since that's where the sequence of topics is defined that requires the transitions. Michael Priestley DITA Specialization Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept 833 IBM Canadat/l: 969

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tex to docbook?

2002-03-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, Is there an easy way to convert tex to docbook. I searched the > archives and the FAQ but found nothing. Since I know virtually > nothing about Tex this may be a dumb question. I started to do > this by hand but that was slow. Thanks, Eric > Thanks for the inf

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tex to docbook?

2002-03-19 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:41:19AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > Is there an easy way to convert tex to docbook. I searched the archives > and the FAQ but found nothing. Since I know virtually nothing about Tex > this may be a dumb question. I started to do this by hand but that was slow

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Tex to docbook?

2002-03-19 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:41:19AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Is there an easy way to convert tex to docbook. I searched the archives > and the FAQ but found nothing. Since I know virtually nothing about Tex > this may be a dumb question. I started to do this by hand but that was slow. You

DOCBOOK-APPS: Tex to docbook?

2002-03-19 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Is there an easy way to convert tex to docbook. I searched the archives and the FAQ but found nothing. Since I know virtually nothing about Tex this may be a dumb question. I started to do this by hand but that was slow. Thanks, Eric

DOCBOOK-APPS: Manage project documents with docbook

2002-03-19 Thread Eric . Belpaire
Hello, has there been attempts to manage project related documents with docbook? I'm looking to manage trees of deliverables (possibly with associated action lists). This tree of deliverables is similar to a work breakdown structure (WBS) with for each one an owner, time estimate, required inpu

DOCBOOK-APPS: Missing seperators in person.name.list

2002-03-19 Thread Peer Brink
Hello Everybody! Generating fo from docbook-xml with an articleinfo.authorgroup and more than one author in it, the fo-result is: Peter Gabriel Marc Knopfler Elton John without seperators "," and "and" (see comm