DOCBOOK-APPS: Best XML-docbook to PDF renderer?

2003-03-10 Thread Thomas Singer
Hi, Currently I'm using FOP to create PDF output from my (XML)docbook files. Does someone knows better renderers, that can be used to generate high-quality output (like LaTeX does)? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Tom

DOCBOOK-APPS: in Slides 3.1.0 Full

2003-03-10 Thread Rune Enggaard Lausen
I noticed that in Slides 3.1.0 based on Simplified DocBook, the speakernotes element is added to local.divcomponent.mix and local.component.mix, such that one can write speakernotes for each slide. In Slides Full, speakernotes are only available in the slides element. Is this an oversight, or i

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: in Slides 3.1.0 Full

2003-03-10 Thread Rune Enggaard Lausen
Rune Enggaard Lausen wrote: I noticed that in Slides 3.1.0 based on Simplified DocBook, the speakernotes element is added to local.divcomponent.mix and local.component.mix, such that one can write speakernotes for each slide Oooops, wrong list. Reposted on the docbook list. Sorry for the inco

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best XML-docbook to PDF renderer?

2003-03-10 Thread Gisbert Amm
> Hi, > > Currently I'm using FOP to create PDF output from my > (XML)docbook files. > Does someone knows better renderers, that can be used to generate > high-quality output (like LaTeX does)? Thanks in advance. > XEP was mentioned here before as quite good, but it's not for free: http://xep.

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best XML-docbook to PDF renderer?

2003-03-10 Thread Ramon Casellas
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Gisbert Amm wrote: > > Currently I'm using FOP to create PDF output from my > > (XML)docbook files. > > Does someone knows better renderers, that can be used to generate > > high-quality output (like LaTeX does)? Thanks in advance. > > > XEP was mentioned here before as quite g

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: curious about xerces parser and endorsed classe s

2003-03-10 Thread Jeff Beal
I'm not too familiar with the "Endorsed Standards" concept with Java. (i.e. I haven't read their documentation.) However, I'm pretty sure that the org.w3c.docm, org.xml.sax, org.xml.sax.ext, and org.xml.sax.helpers packages are almost exclusively java Interfaces, not java Classes. (You can't tel

DOCBOOK-APPS: Word to Docbook using Perl?

2003-03-10 Thread Corey Wells Arnold
Has anyone ever run across a Perl program that can process MS Word tables into Docbook tables? I am putting together a document that is being written by many people who will be using Word. Any ideas on what is the best way to convert it to Docbook XML? I have tried using the Open Office filter,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Word to Docbook using Perl?

2003-03-10 Thread Andy Jewell
I use a hodgepodge document system with this tool chain. First, the document is written in Word 2000 using a (homegrown) docbook stylesheet. Then a small army of scripts run to end up with docbook XSL: * doc2txt converts the DOC to HTML * wh2fo converts the HTML to XML * Saxon processes

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Word to Docbook using Perl?

2003-03-10 Thread Jens Skripczynski
Corey Wells Arnold: > Has anyone ever run across a Perl program that can process MS Word > tables into Docbook tables? I am putting together a document that is > being written by many people who will be using Word. Any ideas on what > is the best way to convert it to Docbook XML? I have tried us

DOCBOOK-APPS: how-to make an index using xsl 1.60

2003-03-10 Thread Jens Skripczynski
Hi, i would like to make an index some article I'm writing. I'm using xalan 2.2.D11 and xsl 1.60.1 . I've got (for texting) Textentries like: [...] Now [-10 CP] testsuper tst test [...] article xsl imports 'hmtl/chunk.xsl' After running xalan: "j

DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with xsl stylesheets (xalan)

2003-03-10 Thread Jens Skripczynski
Hi, I've run into major problems converting an xml docbook document into (x)html. I use: - article.xml in valid docbook 4.2 format - java: JAXP=1.1, SAX=2.0, xalan2=2.2.D11, DOM=2.0 - docbook-xsl-1.60.1 1) converting article to html using html/chunk.xsl works. 2) converting article to html us

DOCBOOK-APPS: DB xsl V1.60.1 - email formatting

2003-03-10 Thread Kevin A. Chin
Using latest DB xsl v 1.60.1, 4.2 docbookx.dtd, the email formatting seems to be broken, esp. when compared to 1.59.1. It seems to keep email with surname on same line for FO (pdf) output: X A Firstname MySurName [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo Output w 1.60.1 xsl, DB4.2 dtd: A

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: srcdir/objdir issues and including variableusability issues with xsltproc

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Lancaster
> "JL" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JL> I've found this stuff to be entirely impenetrable. Is there some JL> good reason why a sensible, simple include and variable JL> substitution system isn't available ? [...] JL> href="$srcdir/xsl/xhtml-non.xsl" JL> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: how-to make an index using xsl 1.60

2003-03-10 Thread Jirka Kosek
Jens Skripczynski wrote: > How can i automatically construct an index using '' with xalan ? Put empty element in a place where index should occur. -- - Jirka Kosek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

DOCBOOK-APPS: Table titles

2003-03-10 Thread Brian Burridge
How do I turn off table titles (like "Table 2.1"). I want to use section titles instead, and don't need the table numbering or title labels. Brian

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Installing and using docbook2X (debian)

2003-03-10 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I have discovered workarounds for the issue that I was having earlier installing docbook2X, but now I have a different one: make[1]: Entering directory `/root/docbook2X-0.7.0/doc' /usr/bin/perl -I../perl ../perl/docbook2manxml --header-3="`date "+%d %B %Y"`" \ --refs-file=docbook

DOCBOOK-APPS: Ant and XMLSpy

2003-03-10 Thread Scott Shepard
If anyone is interested, I have found XMLSpy (v5r3) and Ant to work well together. I searched this list for "Ant" and found nothing. I pass the build.xml file in as if it were the stylesheet :) Here is the command line I use for the "External XSL Transformation program:" in the Options window:

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Ant and XMLSpy

2003-03-10 Thread David Cramer
You must have searched via the oasis archives [1] where "Words must be at least 4 letters or digits long to be indexed"[2]. Try the sources.redhat.com archive [3] and you'll get some hits. [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/ [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/elists/search-help.sht