DOCBOOK-APPS: link in pdf

2003-01-28 Thread shawn
I ahve something like the following but the likk doens't appear in the pdf (via fop) http://jdbforms.sourceforge.net";>http://jdbforms.sourceforge.net If that's for html only, is there a way to get a link in a pdf there? TIA -- shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Sean Wheller
Also try oXygen (http://www.oxygenxml.com), this application is young, but has loads of potential. I have used it to create a number of manuals. > -Original Message- > From: Corey Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Stefan Drees
(My previous post too fast and far too useless, sorry) On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:45:50PM +0100 - a wonderful day - Gour wrote: > Corey Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of > > Procedures. Ideal

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Stefan Drees
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:45:50PM +0100 - a wonderful day - Gour wrote: > Corey Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of Procedures. Ideally > > I'd like to do so in an environment that is easy for those who are > > unfamiliar with programmi

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DiffMk trouble for DocBook documents

2003-01-28 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Johann Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I have a problem with it which I couldn't resolve until now: | | I want to do a "text" diff on some DocBook files. This works fine | but there is one thing I don't like: My "root" element is doub

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Using inline.monoseq in FO

2003-01-28 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Martin Perina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | But there is a problem: inline.monoseq uses | attribute set "monospace.properties", but | it has set font-size attribute to 0.9em. That's | not problem for , but it's great problem | for in chapt

Re: AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] external links using website-2.4.0

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:18 27/01/2003 +0100, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: humm, i guess it is in _fact_ my fault that the links won't be produced accordingly, because i forgot that i customized that specific part of the website xsl stylesheets. sorry for bothering you - call me a dumbass or whatever you want ;-) My

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Is it time to rely on CSS? -- Yes

2003-01-28 Thread Dennis Grace
Elliot Rusty Harold replies to Adam di Carlo's >> >Even if Netscape 4 didn't support CSS1, why should we sacrifice the >convenience of style formatting for 95% of the authors/users because >of the bugginess of the 5% ? Anyhow, even if the 5% can't see the >style, surely the document wou

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Gour
Stefan Drees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ... did You actually try it? It's a tcl script using > wish and the tksmgl-lib. So performance on my machine > linux 2.4 256 MB Mem, PIII-450 was not really that visible, > ok for a tcl/tk script. Yes, I'm using it here with Celeron 566 & 256 RAM. I l

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Lawrence
Corey, I've used most of the editors that people have mentioned, including XXE and Morphon. If you can afford them, stick to Epic or Xmetal. Either will serve you well; whereas, the others will lack features that you'll surely need. I currently use Xmetal, mostly because of nasty experiences wi

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Bart Schuller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:07PM -0600, Corey Arnold wrote: > I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of Procedures. Ideally > I'd like to do so in an environment that is easy for those who are > unfamiliar with programming and mark up to understand. Currently I am > trying to use

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Hudson
I've used jEdit with the plugins, and it's a decent editor. It can validate on keystroke, and suggests available tags, but I wouldn't recommend it for business authors (those not used to seeing markup). I prefer Arbortext Epic for major edits, but jEdit is great for quick edits. Best regards,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Gour
Corey Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of Procedures. Ideally > I'd like to do so in an environment that is easy for those who are > unfamiliar with programming and mark up to understand. Currently I am > trying to use XMLSPY. If someone h

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP: margin-left and margin-right = 0

2003-01-28 Thread ABX
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Are you setting $page.margin.inner or $page.margin.outer in your > customization layer? > > I don't see anywhere in the stylesheets where "0" is used for a left > or right margin. Looks like there can be either problem on my side and on stylesheets side. I have

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread David Tolpin
Hi, is jEdit with XML/XSLT plugins suitable for DocBook authoring? I do all of text processing in vi myself, but just wondering for the sake of other users. David

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Thomas Singer
Hi Cory, Try XXE, it's a very powerful and free DocBook editor on JAVA base. Cheers, Tom At 14:49 27.01.03 -0600, Corey Arnold wrote: Hi, I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of Procedures. Ideally I'd like to do so in an environment that is easy for those who are unfamiliar wi

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-28 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 10:51 AM -0600 1/21/03, Adam DiCarlo wrote: I disagree. Even Netscape 4, the worst standards-supporting browser in use at all today (and obsolete too) supports much of CSS1. You're kidding yourself. I routinely see older browsers in use going back as far as Netscape 1.1. Even if Netscape

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Roel Vanhout
I've tried to let our authors use XMLSpy, but that didn't work out too great. It's ok for simple things, but for tables & formulas & documents bigger than let's say 3 chapters of 5 section's each, you're out of luck. Also I found the stylesheets to be not so great, and it was very slow with a d

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Jeff Beal
In my tests of XML Spy, I found it to be a less-than-adequate XML document editor. It seems to be quite capable for data-oriented XML entry, but not for writing documents. XMLMind is a free editor with plenty of limitations (in particular, it doesn't handle entities well. If it is able to resolv

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images not included in PDF

2003-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc Fontaine
Hello Bob, Thanks a lot for your help. I generated my FO file in different directory so the relative paths to the images were wrong. I thought the FO file was a binary file with the images encapsulated inside. Best regards Jean-Marc -Message d'origine- De :Bob Stayton [mailto:[EM

DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook

2003-01-28 Thread Corey Arnold
Hi, I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of Procedures. Ideally I'd like to do so in an environment that is easy for those who are unfamiliar with programming and mark up to understand. Currently I am trying to use XMLSPY. If someone has attempted this before I would very much a

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP: margin-left and margin-right = 0

2003-01-28 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / ABX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I've upgraded to the latest 1.60.1 version of XSLT and I'm using it with | xsltproc and FOP 20.4. Its output contain a lot of errors about "0" in margins | as follow: | | [ERROR] Error in margin-right prope

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: links to automatic glossary entries are broken

2003-01-28 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | In the FO stylesheets (up to 1.60.1), glossterms occuring inline point to a | id of the form "gl." but when the glossary is generated, the "gl." is | missing in the expansion of the corresponding glossentries

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: glossdivs

2003-01-28 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I am using $glossary.collection to import an external glossary, but my | glossdiv titles do not show up either in XHTML or FO. Only the contained | glossentries appear, as if no glossdivs were defined. Is this be

DOCBOOK-APPS: Using inline.monoseq in FO

2003-01-28 Thread Martin Perina
Hi, I use this customization in my stylesheets for inline monospace fonts: But there is a problem: inline.monoseq uses attribute set "monospace.properties", but it has set font-size attribute to 0.9em. That's not problem for , but it's great problem for in chapters or sections, for exampl

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Index in HTML appears without hyperlinks

2003-01-28 Thread Jirka Kosek
Gisbert Amm wrote: > My indexterms within the docments all look like this: > Java 1.3JRE But this is not real indexterm. It will just add see indexterm entry into index. You must also have "first class" indexterms without element. Like JRE or Java 1.3

DOCBOOK-APPS: Index in HTML appears without hyperlinks

2003-01-28 Thread Gisbert Amm
Hi List, I'm working with DocBook XSL 1.60.1 on SuSE Linux 7.0 or alternatively on Win 2k using Xalan-J 2.4.1 for the transformation. All works fine so far, but now I run into problems when generating an index. Within the compiled HTML Help the index works fine (that means, you can access the top

DOCBOOK-APPS: DiffMk trouble for DocBook documents

2003-01-28 Thread Johann Richard
Hi all, I know this isn't the DiffMk list ;), but my hope is that some of the people that use Norm & Co. Stylesheets for DocBook also use Norm's DiffMk (JAVA) Tool for DocBook. I have a problem with it which I couldn't resolve until now: I want to do a "text" diff on some DocBook files. This wo