Hi Radu,
It's all working now. Thank you. I really appreciate it. And thanks, Dave
and Bernhard, for your suggestions as well.
Best regards,
Bob
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-Ori
XSLT
transformation scenario, and that works fine. Thank you for that tip. All
I need now is a little guidance for the ANT transformation.
Best regards,
Bob
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something wrong, but can't figure out what. Can you see
what the problem might be?
Best regards,
Bob
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From: Radu Coravu
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tes and produces correct output. How can we get this
working using a catalog? Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Best regards,
Bob
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generates the target.db database as expected.
What am I doing wrong that is preventing me from generating a PDF version?
As always, I greatly appreciate your help.
Best wishes,
Bob
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all seem to yield essentially
the same results.
Do you have any further thoughts?
All the best,
Bob
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e this helps clarify the situation a bit. If you need any additional
information or files, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Bob
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<http:
he set document and have them work in the PDF
output as well?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Bob
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Hi Ben,
Thank you for this suggestion. I have been shifted to other tasks for the
time being, but hope to test this soon. I will let you know how it works.
Best wishes,
Bob
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e common files. So, the
question we put to you is: Is this an acceptable approach (or the only
approach) to the problem, or is there a better/recommended alternative?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Bob
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Hi Bob,
Thank you for pointing this out. It is working now, and I'm very grateful
for your help!
Best wishes,
Bob
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-Original Message-
From: Bob St
ing to Bob Stayton's clear
and well-written documentation, but apparently I have missed something. Can
anyone see what I may be doing wrong?
Appreciatively yours,
Bob
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Hi Bob,
That did it. Very helpful! Thank you.
Best regards,
Bob
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From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August
g.jpg. As you
can see, all of the line spacing is removed, except for the area between the
term and the listitem. Can anyone help with this?
Best regards,
Bob
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Bob McIlvrideCommunications Manager
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T
Hi John,
You might want to try a way that many people on this list use to include
code. It works well, avoids conflicts with "<" and "&" characters, and
automatically inserts the latest code any time the document is processed.
You can read our explanation of it here:
http://developers.cogent
Hi Christopher,
We solve this problem at various levels of complexity. The first level is
to put the ENTITY elements in the header of your document. Once you have
more than 5 or 10, though, it gets unwieldy.
So, what we usually do is collect all of them together and put them into a
mydoc/en
Hi Lucas,
Do you have a jadetex.cfg file in your working directory? If not, you can
create one, and then add this to it to get blue-colored hyperlinks and
bookmarks:
\hypersetup{
pdfpagemode=UseOutlines,
colorlinks=true,
linkcolor=blue
}
You can find more det
Hi Francesc,
If I understand your problem correctly, it looks like what you need to do is
create and use a customized DSSSL stylesheet. Here is the definitive
answer on how to do this:
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch04.html#dsssl
Here is a short description of how we do it:
http://devel
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the tips. However...
Ian Castle wrote:
> Is this relevant?
>
>
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/project/pascal/fixingproblems.html#d0e693
>
> Not sure if it is quite the same problem.
I tried this and got a stream of error messages and no output. By reading
We have a problem with bookmark and index links in PDFs generated from the
DSSSL-openjade-jadetex-tex toolchain. When less than a full page is showing
in the acrobat reader and you click on a bookmark or index page number for a
or , it displays the text starting below the chapter or
section
Have you tried any of the sites posted here?
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~mark/docbookmarks/
By the way, his links to our in-house manual are out of date. Here are the
current URLs:
DocBook Tools Overview:
http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-tools.html#PD-TOOLSOVERVIEW
Emacs/PSGM
Stephen Wilhelm wrote:
> How do I make db2html make a chapter all one HTML page?
...
> Could somebody please help refresh my memory? :)
>
Sure. Try this:
(define nochunks
;; Suppress chunking of output pages
#f)
Cheerio!
Bob
---
Robert McIlvride
Hi Morten,
The simple answer is to wrap your 's in a element.
Switching on the correct parameters in the stylesheet should generate a TOC
page in front of all the refentry pages that has a list like you need.
This is fine for maybe 30 or 40 reference entries. If you have a few
hundred, you
Bang, Steinar wrote:
> I wrote earlier:
>>What would be a good DocBook tag for representing very long
>>URLs?
>>
>>I've tried and , but the problem
>>is that they become too long, when rendered by Fop. The
>>URLs continue past the right edge of the paper.
>
> I just tried , and it gave a bet
Tony Graham wrote:
> For o?nsgmls, include "xml.dcl" in the command line *before* your XML
> file, just like Dave Pawson shows for the Jade command line.
That did the trick. Thank you very much.
Cheerio!
Bob
---
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Coge
> > (yup, the 'ol "X00E1" is not a function name error)
We're just now having a similar problem when running nsgmls--getting it to
validate XML for use in the DSSSL tool chain. After reading and heeding all
the posts in archives about catalogs, AFAIK our catalogs are now correct,
but we'r
Ian Castle wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:28, Bob McIlvride wrote:
>
>>We're still going the SGML route, but if you want to see how
>>we do it, you're welcome to take a look at our in-house manual:
>>
>>http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/pr
This might sound like an obvious question, but did you change "book" to
"set" in the document declaration, like this:
http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/book1.html
Anita Ross (EED) wrote:
> I am a new user to DobBook. I am writing 6 related but separate technical documents
>that w
Megan Golding wrote:
> Using DocBook 4.1 SGML, Jade's RTF backend, and Microsoft Word to output
> a document; I want to customize my DSSSL so that verbatim environments
> are translated to a particular paragraph style.
...
> Any pointers or ideas?
You can exercise a fair amount of control using
> |438332 Add optional Glossary to Set
>
> Why is a separate book less than ideal?
Good question. We've been including our glossary as a separate book and
it's working fine. As a matter of fact, it gives us the ability to
publish the glossary as a separate book, which we now do. The reaso
ian mayo wrote:
> I've been able to insert my mediaobject into the bookinfo, but I don't think
> my stylesheets display it. Can anybody give me any advice on how this is
> normally solved? I'd rather not start dipping into DSSSL yet if I can avoid
> it.
The only way I know how to do it involve
Egon Willighagen wrote:
> The first option is just as *valid* as the second, what the XML specs are
> concerned... or am i missing something here?
Far from being an expert myself, I can only refer you to the Pernicious
Mixed Content section on this page of The Definitive Guide:
http://docbook.or
Kristin E Thomas wrote:
> every time I try to validate the
> document I get the error "character data not allowed here" for the lines
> with the tags.
I believe you're running into the "pernicious mixed content" explained
in the "entry" reference page of the DocBook Definit
Yann Dirson wrote:
> It does not appear to work with the stock modular stylesheets.
You need to add mediaobject filenames extensions (like .c, .pl, or
whatever code you're using) to the DSSSL customization layer as posted
earlier in this thread. Also, to be XML conformant, the example should
r
Matthew Kennedy wrote:
>
> Okay! Thanks
Oh, I almost forgot. You might have to modify your DSSSL stylesheet to
recognize the .png or whatever if it isn't there already. To do this
you have to add one or more of these to the stylesheet, with the right
extension(s) in the list. (So far I've been
Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> Therefore, what is the correct way to have a docbook document which
> includes images output to both print and html?
If, for example, you are using .png images for HTML, try this:
System Example
Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 14:54 22/08/2001 -0500, Dennis Grace wrote:
> I.e. take a block of stuff and gradually make it
> conformant to a DTD.
Yeah, I do that a lot, too. I'm surprised you haven't been using macros
to speed up the task. For example, if you have a chunk of regularly
formatted te
Hi Dennis,
I almost regret having entered this discussion, since I can't claim to
be knowledgeable on any editor for DocBook other than Emacs, not having
used any other. I only wanted to point out that although the learning
curve is practically vertical for Emacs, there are benefits. Perhaps I
> Well, Holger, it may be just that some of us find emacs a clumsy,
> cumbersome editor.
My two cents worth: I came to my current job from a Mac/Windows desktop
publishing, 100% WYSIWYG background, and even wrote articles on the
advantages of the author having full control of the layout of the
Hi Claus,
We faced the challenge of indexing a set of books last year,
particularly how to incorporate some kind of functionality with the
"local", "global", and "all" scope attributes on s.
We modified Norm's collateindex.pl to do this, and posted a diff file to
this newsgroup at that time (b
> And I've added pdf to the following in the stylesheets:
>
> (define %graphic-extensions%
>'("eps" "epsf" "gif" "tif" "tiff" "jpg" "jpeg" "pdf" "png"))
Are you wrapping the graphics in or ?
If so, try one of these:
;; List of mediaobject filename extensions.
(define preferred-mediaobj
klaas holwerda wrote:
> But in case of the first section within a chapter, the first section is
> placed on the same page as the chapter and
> its table of contents, so no seperate file.
> Therefore next question would be how can i control that (certain)
> sections get placed on seperate pages.
Peter Toft wrote:
> Hints on which parameter is actually tune up are of
> very high interest!!
Look at the doc/install.pdf in the jadetex distribution. There is a
complete answer there.
Cheerio!
Bob
---
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"Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" wrote:
> I'm looking for links to DSSSL customisation style sheets to see how to do
> various things (and also just to see what can be done).
We have a short how-to and an example of our customization layer at:
http://24.112.178.91/cogent/prepdoc/pd-customizingthedsss
Bob Stayton wrote:
> I'd like to hear from anyone who is using or
> has tried olink, and what their experiences were.
We tried using it when we wanted to cross reference various books, and
found it difficult to understand what it is and how exactly to implement
it. Partly for this, but mainly fo
Joe Cooper wrote:
> Of those, SGML->OpenJade->JadeTeX->pdfjadetex is what I've decided on
> for my current projects, for the following reasons:
...
This and everything that follows have pretty much been our experience
and recommendation. Between the changes and new versions of DocBook
DSSSL sty
Bob McIlvride wrote:
>
> The in gets moved to the left margin in our PDF
> output. The output looks similar to this:
This behavior is due to a seemingly errant line in the print/dblists.dsl
stylesheet:
(element (varlistentry term)
(make paragraph
space-before: (
The in gets moved to the left margin in our PDF
output. The output looks similar to this:
.
Chapter 1. Variable Lists
Paragraph text is indented like this. Most of the content of
the
document is indented simi
Norman Walsh wrote:
> Hard to say without seeing a test case. Can you submit this as a bug
> report at http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ and include a short
> test document that demonstrates the bug, please.
Done.
Cheerio!
Bob
---
Robert McIlvride ([
Ian Castle wrote:
>
> The following patch works for me (against 3.7):
>
> --
> diff -Naur jadetex-3.7-orig/jadetex.dtx jadetex-3.7/jadetex.dtx
> --- jadetex-3.7-orig/jadetex.dtxFri Jun 22 22:41:03 2001
[snip]
Thanks for this, Ian. It
Holger Rauch wrote:
> When you're talking about hyperlinks, you probably mean those created by
> the element, right?
You can get them with the and elements, too.
> Did you create some special jadetex.cfg file in order to get both the
> red-boxed hyperlinks and the bookmarks?
Check out Mich
Michael Wiedmann wrote:
>
> Bob McIlvride wrote on 010614 09:32 -0400:
> ...
> > Could it be a jadetex issue? We're using version 1.63.
>
> Using openjade and jadetex 3.5 produces *almost* correct PDF:
> - the "_" in the title text displays as expected,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That is even here the case:
Yes, our tex output is identical to yours.
> But the _ in \HeadingText offends pdfjadetex. If I remove that pdf is
> generated. The underscore in the article title does not harm.
Could it be a jadetex issue? We're using version 1.63.
Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> This works for me using jade 1.2.1, so it looks like an openjade bug!
> "_" is correct in the TOC and in the chapter title itself.
> The resulting TeX-code assuming a chapter title of "Ch_01":
>
> ...
> Ch\char95{}01\endNode{}
> ...
It works for us using OpenJade 1.3,
Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> - an inside a creates an entry in the index but
> with '??' instead of the correct page number.
>
> Is there a known workaround?
Try putting the right after the title. That works for us.
Cheerio!
Bob
---
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That did the trick. Of course, we had to modify each of "appendix",
"sect1", "sect2" ... to get all those elements as well. And we had to
include the common/dblen.ent as an entity to have all the entities
resolve, using this line at the top of our customized stylesheet:
%en.words
Thank you ve
Laurent Pointal wrote:
> I dont know if this can change the result, but where do you put the id
> definition ? In the title tag or in the chapter tag ?
In the chapter tag. Jade doesn't appear to support xrefs to titles.
When I tried, I got this message:
jade:../main.sgml:43:2:E: [xref to TITLE
> Xref will automatically generate the link text;
I don't get the output that TDG suggests. TDG says this SGML:
A straight link generates the
cross-reference text: .
reasonably renders like this:
A straight link generates the cross-reference text:
Chapter 2, "The
We are having the same problem with DSSSL version 1.63 as M. Wroth was
having with version 1.60, but the fix Norm recommended below doesn't
work. Is it supposed to work for 1.63, or is there another reason we
can't center figure graphics in HTML?
Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> / "M. Wroth" <[EMAIL PRO
> 3. In your stylesheet customisation, cut and paste the function
I'm sure this was an oversight--I think you meant "copy and paste," not
"cut and paste" It could be confusing to a newcomer. The
principle is you can copy chunks of code from the distributed
stylesheets like common/dbcom
> I want a correct Table of Contents and PDF bookmarks. I also want
> to avoid those ugly red boxes around any linked text...
Like I said before, I can't be of much help on the TOC or bookmarks, but
to get rid of the ugly boxes, you need a file called jadetex.cfg, with
the following:
\h
> I'd like to download the most current and bug-free version of pdfjadetex.
The latest I know of is version 3.6, available at
http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/
Unfortunately, it still seems to have a few bugs related to
TOC/pagination. We're waiting for version 3.7 which Sebastian has
Guy Thomas wrote:
>
> I want to use a jpeg file as the book title with the following xml code
...
> Where exactly do I put this code?
The position of many things on the title page, including graphics, is
determined by the stylesheet, at least for SGML/DSSSL. Here is an
example of what we put in
> did you also apply the patches to openjade
Aha. That could be the difference. We're using jade, not openjade. I
suppose all bets are off. From what I've been reading on this
newsgroup, there are advantages/disadvantages to jade vs. openjade.
I'll put this down as one advantage for openjad
We've had this problem for a long time, and were hopeful to hear there
is a solution. However, after installing the latest JadeTex (wow, the
bookmarks work now! Thanks, Sebastian!), and DSSSL 1.64, we still don't
get any margins in table cells. (Running DocBook 4.1).
I have a couple questions a
Nik Clayton wrote:
> I've tweaked values in texmf.cnf till I'm blue in the face. I know that
> the tweaks are having an effect, because if I adjust values *down* then
> the error message occurs earlier. But no matter how high I adjust the
> values it always bombs out at 51918 strings.
We hit t
Holger Rauch wrote:
> I came accross your message on the DocBook apps mailing list concerning
> your in-hose guide. Well, first of all, thanks a lot for providing such a
> useful piece of documentation.
You're welcome. Always happy to help
> After having looked at the "Tools" section, I found
> | We're using pdfjadetex (jadetex 2.20) to convert .tex files to .pdf. Is
> | this a problem for Sebastian?
>
> I think so.
I checked with Sebastian, and based on his questions, I've found at
least one way to solve the problem--revise the print stylesheet. I
added this line to our print styl
> 1. Graphics do not appear in the PDF file. They are implemented as
> in the DocBook file.
We modify our print custom stylesheet to include this:
;; List of mediaobject filename extensions.
(define preferred-mediaobject-extensions
(list "jpeg" "jpg" "png" "avi" "mpg" "mpeg" "qt" "pdf"))
Th
Here's an in-house guide we use for our DocBook-based documentation.
The Tools section may be of some use to you. The rest is pretty
specific to our docs, but it might give you some ideas. Steps 3 and 4 of
the Installing JadeTeX are redundant with the latest release, but we're
keeping them in fo
> What backend are you using? With RTF, this works fine.
We're using pdfjadetex (jadetex 2.20) to convert .tex files to .pdf. Is
this a problem for Sebastian?
Cheerio!
Bob
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