Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 10:41 18/05/2002 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: >Thanks for the various suggestions and hints. The delays are somewhere in >the (load-library "tei-emacs-init") that is invoked from site-start.el. > >Now to copy it's contents into .emacs, start with --no-in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Thanks for the various suggestions and hints. The delays are somewhere in the (load-library "tei-emacs-init") that is invoked from site-start.el. Now to copy it's contents into .emacs, start with --no-init and execute it line by line (with C-x C-e). Regards, Dave At 21:54 17/05/2002 +0100,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 19:02 16/05/2002 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: >At 00:15 16/05/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > >>I don't know Windows. If you can run emacs from the RUN button, try >>running it with --no-init as a run flag; this loads Emacs alone >>without loading any of the library files. Emacs itself

DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
I'm using the psgml emacs package under Windows 2000, as downloaded from the TEI website, and slowly converting to using a powerful (but different keystrokes to what I'm used to !!) editor. However, why does it take almost a minute to start emacs and load all of its initialisation code? Are th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: EBNF and HTML links

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
I've now fixed things and posted a patch on Sourceforge - Request ID 556562. Hopefully it won't have unknown side effects Dave At 10:33 16/05/2002 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: >We are using Docbook's EBNF module to document our in-house 4GL and >producing

DOCBOOK-APPS: EBNF and HTML links

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
We are using Docbook's EBNF module to document our in-house 4GL and producing HTML using the 1.50.0 XSL stylesheets. It all works, except that the links from elements don't generate the correct hyperlinks. 1) Within a chunk, the href attribute of a generated element needs a '#' 2)

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 05:18 3/05/2002 +0100, John Levon wrote: > doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"; /> > >Another thing: is there a simple way to get human-readable XHTML output ? Try indent="yes" and/or using tidy -

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: perl/docbook2-converter

2002-04-30 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
My guess is no, but you should really ask the question across on the AxKit mailing list (http://www.axkit.org/mailinglist.xml) At 22:19 30/04/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > > "D" == Dave Brooks writes: > > D> ... Or go all the way and use Ax-Kit (http://www.axkit.org/) to >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: perl/docbook2-converter

2002-04-30 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Use an XSLT library and call it from perl to transform XML Docbook sources using the XSL style sheets. Or go all the way and use Ax-Kit (http://www.axkit.org/) to directly serve XML via Apache. Dave At 00:46 1/05/2002 +, Matt G. wrote: >>From: Thomas Porschberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Visio Vector Graphics -> DocBook XSL

2002-04-05 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Does the printer driver have an option to embed fonts ? You could also try using other Postscript printer drivers (just chose "Print to File" when printing) and see if they have such options - under Win 2000 my HP 5MP Postscript driver has a setting determining whether Truetype fonts are down

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to remove surplus spaces.

2002-03-29 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
This is for XSL - Joe is using DSSSL style sheets At 04:56 29/03/2002 -0500, Glass, Eric wrote: >Add something like: > > > >to the stylesheet. Similarly, if you want to strip space as a default with >specified exceptions you could say something like: > > > > >These are top-level elements (ch

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to translate HTML to DocBook

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 12:53 19/03/2002 +1100, Andrew Westcombe wrote: >At 05:00 PM 12/03/2002 -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: > >> It also helps if the source is "good" HTML. Having closing tags such >> as , , and helps immensely. > > >I've used DocParse myself, it's not bad, and very good value. As for >having

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Link for TEI Emacs Package

2002-01-20 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
See also http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/ which contains links to more recent packages. At 20:33 20/01/02 +, Dave Pawson wrote: >At 20:51 20/01/2002 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: >>Hi! >> >>Could anybody repost the link for the TEI Emacs package? I've seen it >>appear twice on this list, b

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xsltproc and CDATA

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Dec 13, 2001 at 10:37:02PM +1300, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: > > I am starting to use xsltproc instead of Xalan. However the following > > sample gets an error: > > > > test.xml:5: error: docbParseStartTag: invalid element name > You are NOT using the XML parser > >

DOCBOOK-APPS: xsltproc and CDATA

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I am starting to use xsltproc instead of Xalan. However the following sample gets an error: test.xml:5: error: docbParseStartTag: invalid element name

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: "link annotations can't be nested" from Passivetex(pdfxmltex)

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 00:49 12/12/01 -0800, Alex Lancaster wrote: > > "TW" == Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >TW> What version of pdfTeX do you have? I think this might be due to >TW> a bug in an old version of pdfTeX (I'm using 0.14h here). > gain is there a simple way of fixing just the >"pdfTeX" pa

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: "link annotations can't be nested" from Passivetex(pdfxmltex)

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
And I also have 0.13d - thanks guys for spotting this. Dave At 00:49 12/12/01 -0800, Alex Lancaster wrote: > > "TW" == Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >TW> What version of pdfTeX do you have? I think this might be due to >TW> a bug in an old version of pdfTeX (I'm using 0.14h here)

DOCBOOK-APPS: "link annotations can't be nested" from Passivetex(pdfxmltex)

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I'm using the latest version of Passivetex to try to produce PDF from Docbook. Processing the FO file produced from the following test document results in a "link annotations can't be nested" error from pdfxmltex the second time it is run - the first time I am warned (as expected) that the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Windows editor for DocBook XML that does not messwith files?

2001-11-21 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi Dan, I don't know what it is like on saving changes as XML, but has anyone had experience of using Wordperfect as an XML editor? From the quick look that I've had (at WP 9), it will validate against a DTD and allow different layouts to be defined to present a WYSIWYG style view of the doc

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad vertical postionning of a footer table

2001-09-12 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi Yann, My guess is that it is a lurking problem in the fancyhdr package (which is used by jadetex). I have seen problems with headers when trying to put a rule (via DSSSL make rule) underneath the header text - all is well if just one of outer/center/inner header has text but otherwise the b

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: margins in tables

2001-09-07 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
There is a patch that needs to be applied to OpenJade 1.3 that allows %cals-cell-before-column-margin% and %cals-cell-after-column-margin% to be specified. Check on SourceForge. Regards, Dave At 12:06 7/09/01 +0200, camille wrote: >"Juan R. Migoya" a écrit : > > > > I use Jadetex 3.10 and it

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL Tutorials

2001-09-05 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Great, thanks. http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc/handbook/focr/focr.html should be required reading for anyone who wants to know how dbcompon.dsl works (in the DSSSL stylesheets). At 10:33 5/09/01 +0100, Tony Graham wrote: >Dave Pawson wrote at 1 Sep 2001 23:50:58 +0100: > > I was

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: html/xhtml to docbook filter

2001-08-30 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 13:10 30/08/01 +0200, Ismael Olea wrote: > I'm looking for a filter to translate clean html files into docbook. > > Does anybody know something about that? > > I'm in a hurry for filtering tables, so if you now a fast way to > do it, >I'll be grateful :-) > Ensure the

DOCBOOK-APPS: OpenJade development - header and footer rules.

2001-08-29 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I've started making some changes into OpenJade in order to better produce rules under headers or above footers when using the TeX backend (assuming jadetex with the fancyhdr package is doing the next stage of processing). My reason for doing this is because I've found that the method of ad

DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL Tutorials

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I've managed to find a couple of DSSSL tutorials, whose links should be added to the FAQ. One is by Daniel Germán at http://csgrs6k1.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/dsssl/tutorial/tutorial.html and the other is by Paul Prescod, a copy of which is at http://wwwai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/lehre/ws-00-01/DokVe

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL to get section and chapter title in header

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Thanks Juan. I put: (make line-field field-width: %page-width% inhibit-line-breaks?: #t (empty-sosofo) ) after each item and it makes no difference. Putting rules on each of the headers (outer, center, inner) does do the job except that the rule is too high up. I can tweak this via j

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL to get section and chapter title in header

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
I've answered my first question - (element-title-string (current-node)) and (element-title-string (parent (current-node))) when producing sect1 headers do the job nicely. Now to sort out the rules underneath... >Some questions: >1) How do you refer to both the chapter and section (sect1) titl

DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL to get section and chapter title in header

2001-08-24 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I'm looking for ways to generate a header using the DSSSL style sheets (openjade/pdfjadetex), that is like: PageNo   ChapterTitle | SectionTitle  Page No --|-   |    R H Page   |   L H p

DOCBOOK-APPS: Page numbering in TOC when sect1 on new page

2001-08-23 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I am getting sect1 (when role="screen") starting on a new page by using the following. However the page numbers are for the preceding page in the TOC. openjade 1.3 pdfjadetex 3.11 Any suggestions Thanks, Dave ;; Start each sect1 on a new page when role="screen" (element sect1 (

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trying to find a DocBook solution that simply works

2001-08-22 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
My toolset is OpenJade with DSSSL stylesheets, along with pdfjadetex to build PDF. The stylesheets also provide for making HTML and RTF. I looked at using XSLT (and would prefer to work with XSL and not have to come to grips with DSSSL customisation), but concluded that the XSL stylesheets and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Solution to funky TOCs in HTML Help...

2001-08-14 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 22:51 13/08/01 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: >"Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" wrote: > > > > At 21:36 13/08/01 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: > > > > >They are usefull, but in XSLT there is no easy way to strip leading and > > >tra

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Solution to funky TOCs in HTML Help...

2001-08-13 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 21:36 13/08/01 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: >They are usefull, but in XSLT there is no easy way to strip leading and >trailing new-line from > > >foo >bar > should do this, -- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message

DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL customisation examples

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I'm at the stage of getting reasonable PDF output and have started tweaking the DSSSL stylesheets, so 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). The DSSSL FAQ http://www.miwie.org/docbook-dsssl-faq.htm

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to structure XSL stylesheets for chunking andnon-chunking

2001-07-30 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 15:43 30/07/01 -0400, Dan York wrote: >So I have a system that works... why I am asking the question? >Well, does anyone have a better way to do this? Is there any way to >NOT have to have two separate stylesheets for chunking or non-chunking? >Is there a way I can have *one* call and call it

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 09:32 26/07/01 +0100, you wrote: >Dave Brooks, BCS Systems writes: > > For a JPEG I get the Latex error message "! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine > > size of graphic in test.jpg (no BoundingBox)." > >you do not have a current copy of the file pdftex.def I now

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Well, the path: [tex] - jadetex -> [dvi] - dvips -> [ps] - epstopdf -> [pdf] gives me graphics in the PDF; [tex] - pdfjadetex -> [pdf] doesn't ! Dave At 13:12 26/07/01 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: >Still trying... > >I've been editing the TE

DOCBOOK-APPS: "Non-PDF special ignored!" from pdfjadetex

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
What is the cause of the "Non-PDF special ignored!" message from pdfjadetex ? Have I a bad installation? I have re-installed but made no difference. Apart from this message and the blank graphics, it all appears to work. Dave --

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
cognise is EPS, for which it leaves a blank space where the image should be. jadetex works, producing a DVI file which dvips will print, WITH the image. Thanks, Dave At 09:47 26/07/01 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: >At 17:00 25/07/01 -0400, Kevin Dunn wrote: >>

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 17:00 25/07/01 -0400, Kevin Dunn wrote: >-- Original Message -- >From: "Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:16:03 +1200 > > >Hi, > > > >I've been trying to get gra

DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi, I've been trying to get graphics into PDF from Docbook. The tools I am using are OpenJade 1.3 with OpenSP 1.3.4, DSSL stylesheets 1.71 and pdfjadetex from 17/04/2001 I have tried various graphics formats for the element, including PNG, JPEG, EPS and PDF. None result in a graphic in the P

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Correct handling of recto and verso title pages withDSSSL

2001-04-17 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Yes please ! Thanks, Dave At 11:59 18/04/01 +0900, you wrote: >I have fixed the little problem to do with recto and verso pages getting an >extra page after them if JadeTeX is doing its stuff and ensuring that a >simple-page-sequence starts on a recto page ... > >If there is any interest, I ca

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Errors from Openjade with XML Docbook

2001-04-04 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
09:57 04/04/01 +0200, you wrote: >"Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" wrote: > > > >LINUX: > > >openjade:./dbx412/ent/iso-lat1.ent:6:19:E: "X00E1" is not a function name > > >openjade:./dbx412/ent/iso-lat1.ent:7:19:E: "X00C1" is not a function n

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Errors from Openjade with XML Docbook

2001-04-03 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
I've found that valid output is being produced. It appears that openjade is parsing something after it has finished the XML file, which is resulting in these error messages. If the XML file has some valid errors then the '-E 5' option is terminating after 5 errors and then openjade is finding

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: installation question

2001-04-03 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hi Sean, At 16:52 03/04/01 -0700, you wrote: >I am a novice docbook user. I am a professional who would like to develop >my papers and pubs in docbook so as to enable multiple output formats and >long life of my documents. > >I am currently installing on Windows but will be moving to Linux. Yo

DOCBOOK-APPS: Errors from Openjade with XML Docbook

2001-04-03 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
Hello, I have installed Docbook, Openjade, etc, with the aim of converting our documentation set to Docbook. My attempts to run a simple test with Docbook XML results in Openjade producing lots of errors relating to the entity files, as detailed below - different error messages are produced r