Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customize (extend) DTD and XSL stylesheet

2003-02-20 Thread Bob Stayton
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:41:05AM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > I am searching to find out how to possibly customize (extend) the > DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheet to apply it on my XML documents/ebook. I > need to structure the text content with my own defined additional XML > elements and a

DOCBOOK-APPS: Customize (extend) DTD and XSL stylesheet

2003-02-20 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
I am searching to find out how to possibly customize (extend) the DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheet to apply it on my XML documents/ebook. I need to structure the text content with my own defined additional XML elements and attributes, to prepare it for smart content search. I have looked in chpt

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: xsl-fo: landscape images

2003-02-20 Thread David Cramer
I think you have 3 options: 1) Use a graphics program to rotate the image. 2) (Depending on what version of XEP you're using) Customize the xsls to put a around the image. Older versions of XEP required you to have absolute-position="fixed" on block-containers to use reference-orientation, but

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables

2003-02-20 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:50:21PM +0100, Joachim Ziegler wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of > figures/tables. > > I have some tables and figures with a quite long description (given in > ) and a short description (given in > ..). > > > No

DOCBOOK-APPS: xsl-fo: landscape images

2003-02-20 Thread Bernd Kuemmerlen
Hello there, I have the following problem: I want to include some rather large screenshots in my DocBook XML file. To fit on the page for PDF output (using the XEP renderer), I have to scale them down a bit (which works quite well using the content-width="scale-to-fit" attribute of fo:graphic).

Re: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: No "en" localization exists

2003-02-20 Thread MFAUJOUR
Thank you for your quick response. Unfortunatly, common/en.xml is there and ok. I have read in a mail that it might be a libxml pb. But i dont understand, i use libxml2 and nobody report error with it. Anyway, I have installed the mail's recommended version of libxml (1.8.17-8) but it is the sa

Re: Re: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: No "en" localization exists

2003-02-20 Thread MFAUJOUR
>What mail recommended libxml version 1? I don't remember, it was on the docbook mail list. It was perhaps an old mail. >I use the latest versions of libxslt/libxml2 and Saxon 6 >on Linux. Thank you, i am going to reinstall libxml2 an libxslt and retry.

DOCBOOK-APPS: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables

2003-02-20 Thread Joachim Ziegler
Hello, I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of figures/tables. I have some tables and figures with a quite long description (given in ) and a short description (given in ..). Now in the running text, when I have an xref to such a table or figure, the text from th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ANNOUNCE: sagehill XSL doc 0.9 released

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Polley
I second that! The XML sources would be nice too--then we can make our own PDFs (and practice what is being taught in the book at the same time). Thanks, Martin Polley Technical Communicator Tel +972-4-6677165 Mobile +972-53-864280 On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:35, Rune Enggaard Lausen wrote: B

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ANNOUNCE: sagehill XSL doc 0.9 released

2003-02-20 Thread Rune Enggaard Lausen
Bob Stayton wrote: > I've posted version 0.9 of "Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets" Bob, This is a fantastic effort! Very well written, comprehensive and - best of all - *maintained* :-) I only miss one thing: A printable version. I like to tuck myself away in a quiet corner when I read :-). I

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Strange problem: no footnotes generated

2003-02-20 Thread Joachim Ziegler
Nicolas Nieswandt wrote: Joachim Ziegler wrote: No no, my file is valid! :-( Are you really sure? ;-) I discoverd no problems with the stylesheets concerning footnotes. So some more information would be nice, in order to guide you to the solution. You can have a look at the missing footno

Re: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: No "en" localization exists

2003-02-20 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:23:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thank you for your quick response. > > Unfortunatly, common/en.xml is there and ok. Then somehow the XSLT document() function is broken in the version you are using. The en.xml file is the first external document file tha

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xsl-fo: title page customization and bug resolutionin xsltproc

2003-02-20 Thread Bernd Kuemmerlen
Daniel Veillard wrote: Got it. Strange I though I added those empty namespace declarations *only* for the default namespace when asked to generate a node without namespace while the default namespace is set. I will try to kill it before the next release. Thanks for the quick action, looking

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Verso titlepage redux

2003-02-20 Thread Bob Stayton
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0600, Dennis Grace wrote: > Back in October, Bob showed me how to include the email and affiliation > data on the verso title page. The following works like a charm: > > > > > >="book.titlepage.verso.mode"/> > > > > > >