When you asked "could someone customize", did you mean:
"will someone write this customization for me?"
Or did you mean
"is it possible to customize, and could someone advise how I might go about
doing it?".
If it's the former case, then you should expect to have to pay someone.
If it's the
Please could the preceding message, from "Ron" be sent to the list, so
subscribers can see what's being responded to here.
Regards,
Richard.
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That’s exactly what I was going to suggest. (ie passing the “-o” and the
file-name as separate parameters).
Some time ago when I got Saxon 6.5.5 working from Ant that’s exactly what I had
to do.
Saxon 9 takes “-o:file-name”, ie the colon means that it is a single keyword,
where Saxon 6 makes
It's quite a long time since I last tried out my docbook epub3 generation and
on doing so now I am getting an error Mimetype entry must not have an extra
field in its ZIP header from epubcheck (3.0.1). Does anyone know how to get
rid of it ?
I am using Ant (1.9.4) to do the processing,
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From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 1:00 AM
To: Richard Hamilton; Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] I
I can see from Bob's book that Docbook and the stylesheets provide a mechanism
I can use to get a decorated title page, but at the moment my result PDF
document ends straight after all the sections and the appendix.
I would like to have another page to finish off. It will be decorated a bit
If I've understood correctly, you're having trouble getting the zip part of the
process working.
I have the basic process for generating epub via Ant working fine.
An earlier query on this list (14/6/2013) was replied to by tony Graham, who
pointed me at his article
Saxon 6 is still available as an XSLT 1.0 processor.
It seems to work OK for me.
Regards,
Richard.
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To: gra...@heliocentrik.net; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re:
for the
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From: Kerry, Richard
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From: David Cramer [da...@thingbag.net]
Sent: 16 August 2013 14:16
To: Kerry, Richard
(using for DocBook/WebHelp)
On Fri, August 9, 2013 11:19 am, Kerry, Richard wrote:
...
I've tried to follow Ant's documentation regarding the xmlcatalog
element but I can't get it to work. (I am finding the Ant
documentation in this area extremely hard to follow) By can't get it
to work I
I'm trying to get DocBook WebHelp building working.
Although I do already have a working Ant build file based on the one from the
DocBook stylesheet distribution I would like to use Catalogs for resolving my
stylesheet locations, which the one provided doesn't.
For my other target formats I'm
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Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:43 PM
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: Use of XML Catalog with Ant (xslt task) - request for example
(using for DocBook/WebHelp)
Hi Kerry,
We use the xslt task in ant with catalogs. The FO transformation
From: Peter Desjardins [peter.desjardins...@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 June 2013 17:04
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] A Complex Title Page - which method to use ?
I'm using a slightly complex title page
Does anyone have experience of building epub3 from Docbook using Ant ?
In particular the use of Ant's zip task.
One of the rules for epub3 is that the mimetype file comes first. It appears
that this can't be enforced using Ant's zip task. Does anyone know if there is
any way of making
For my project I want to produce a title page that is a little more complex
than I think I can achieve using the standard title page customization system
(as descried in http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html).
I've used title page customization and set margins to put the
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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - Use of Ant's zip task - ensuring file order
follows the rules
On Fri, June 14, 2013 11:00 am, Kerry, Richard wrote:
Does anyone have experience of building epub3 from Docbook using Ant ?
In particular the use of Ant's zip task.
One of the rules
and will not be liable
From: Kerry, Richard [richard.ke...@atos.net]
Sent: 29 May 2013 12:21
To: Jirka Kosek; DocBook Apps Mailing List
[docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] RE: HtmlHelp/CHM - Revision
History+generate.revhistory.link
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From: Kerry, Richard [richard.ke...@atos.net]
Sent: 20 May 2013 14:22
To: DocBook Apps Mailing
I'm looking at the CHM/HtmlHelp output from my project. (Using Saxon-6,
Microsoft Html Help Compiler, and Ant to call them both)
I want to customize how the Revision History is displayed. I would like to be
able to show it linked from the title-page, using generate.revhistory.link.
If I
Ok - retrying this. The images may appear in-line but I've attached the files
in case they don't.
And I've added descriptions in case they still don't appear.
I've managed to get a border around my document's footer, using foot.sep.rule.
However, it isn't spaced how I want it and I can't
I've managed to get a border around my document's footer, using foot.sep.rule.
However, it isn't spaced how I want it and I can't get it to change in the way
I want.
I'm trying to get :
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Sent: 14 May
From: Kerry, Richard [richard.ke...@atos.net]
Sent: 03 May 2013 17:23
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Alignment / tabular formatting of ToC in FO
Bob,
What you want isn't possible with just the existing attribute-sets.
That's what
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From: Bob Stayton [b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 26 April 2013 22:19
To: Kerry, Richard
I'm working on a docbook document which I am currently trying to process to PDF
via FO.
The document is an article.
I'm generally copying the formatting of an existing set of Word documents.
In particular at the moment I'm looking at the appearance of the ToC pages.
In the standard
Not sure if we want break backward compatibility or not. I think the
current implementation is confusing. IF we want to do that,
then better sooner than later.
I would urge against the default = don't work option.
If that's what backward-compatibility would give then backward-compatibility
This is really an Ant question but as I'm not on any Ant mailing list (yet -
may need to soon ...) .
Is there anyone with experience of :
1. Building epub3 output from DocBook.
and
2. Doing so using Ant ?
How do you implement stage 2. Copy any image files into the output
directory.
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 - copying the images, using Ant
Kerry, Richard wrote:
...
How do you implement stage 2. Copy any image files into the output
directory. ?
...
Is there a way in Ant of doing a copy based on data which only becomes
available during the build process ?
Try
- copying the images, using Ant
On Fri, March 15, 2013 12:10 pm, Kerry, Richard wrote:
...
1. Building epub3 output from DocBook.
...
Is there a way in Ant of doing a copy based on data which only becomes
available during the build process ?
Write the filename list, one line per filename
it; Tony's example has
pointed me at it.
Appreciatively,
Richard.
From: Michael Wiedmann [m...@miwie.in-berlin.de]
Sent: 15 March 2013 13:57
To: Kerry, Richard
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 - copying the images, using Ant
Kerry, Richard wrote:
Probably
Should I expect to be able to use img.src.path when generating epub3 documents ?
Having set it ( to Images/, as I do with my other html-based outputs) it
doesn't seem to have any effect on package.opf. It does add Images/ to any
image file names I use where they appear in the html output
I'm trying to automate section 2 - Copy Image files, from the epub3 README.
I've written some XSL to extract the list of image files from package.opf and
generate a batch file to do the copies.
I am trying to move my builds from batch files to Ant and am wondering how to
do this copy from
It has come to my attention (see xslt list for details) that not only are the
DocBook stylesheets still XSLT 1, but that, when being processed using Saxon,
they use certain features that are specific to Saxon 6, and are not available
in Saxon 9. Specifically html/chunker.xsl uses saxon:output
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Sent: 04 February 2013 13:14
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Request to that DB stylesheets be able to use Saxon
9.
Richard:
Norm Walsh began working on salt 2 stylesheets. They are currently a separate
project. You can find a link
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Sent: 04 February 2013 13:14
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Request to that DB stylesheets be able to use Saxon
9.
Richard:
Norm Walsh began working on salt 2 stylesheets. They are currently a separate
project. You can find a link
When I eventually got back to looking at this I realized there was a rather
fundamental question that I had assumed an answer for and not tested
Can the Catalog be written using relative paths ?
For some reason I had believed the answer was No. Possibly because that was in
all
list to get the formatting improved.
Appreciatively.
Richard.
-Original Message-
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 07 December 2012 20:03
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Creating a separate
section/component
That's right. I'm the only one who operates the publishing system.
I've got a server running the Hudson continuous integration build
manager. It checks our source code control system every night and if
any writers have checked in changes, it launches a build. So the
writers don't have to
The easiest thing to do would be an editor as XMLMind's XXE
(as Stefan
Seefeld pointed out), or Oxygen XML Editor which my
department is using.
That involves buying some editors as we don't currently have any; though I
think XXE can be used for free so that might be a possibility for
.
From: Peter Desjardins [peter.desjardins...@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 December 2012 16:04
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?
In my environment, most people
the borders not
visible. Also I'll want a coloured heading line (which I will for other tables
in the document as well).
Also the Appendix heading is indented compared to the Section headings.
Eventually,
Richard.
From: Kerry, Richard [richard.ke
{1,2}[/:]\d{1,2}[/:]\d{1,4} or \d{1,2} [a-zA-Z]{3,9}
\d{1,4}
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 03 December 2012 20:20
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Date and Time normalization
Hi Richard,
EXSLT
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Sent: 24 November 2012 00:44
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Title-page customization - is it just me ?
Hi Richard,
Thanks for pointing out these inconsistencies. I think I know why they are
happening, and I'll correct them
Team,
I seem to be finding that although I can customize the font params for a
Section heading using an attribute-set (eg. section.title.level1.properties) it
seems that in order to do the same for the Table Of Contents heading I need
to use the titlepage customization system.
Is there
Team,
I've successfully removed the Revision History from the title-page of my
document (ie from the title-page of the FO transform) - that was
straightforward.
I'd like to add it back as a separate section (*) later in the file - probably
between the appendix (which is rarely present)
How do people manage their XML catalogs, when developing DocBook ?
In particular when you're not working alone so need to share a catalog's
contents but with individualized base paths. And even if 'not alone' just
means there's a build server which needs a catalog of its own.
Of course
I want to normalize some dates in my DocBook.
Ie I have dates written in a number of different formats (eg 3/12/2012, 3 Dec
2012, 3 December 2012) which I'd like to normalize into one.
This is sometimes just to achieve consistency in the output documents - ie to
make them the same as my
I'm sure it is me, but I can't seem to get this to work.
I want to customize my (PDF via FO) document.
I want to make the title-page a separate page, ie to insert a page-break. My
document is an article.
I'm using docbook-xsl-1.77.1 stylesheets, and Docbook 5.
Following the
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From: Kerry, Richard [richard.ke...@atos.net]
Sent: 23 November 2012 17:09
To: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: [docbook-apps] Title
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transmitted.
From: Carlos Araya [carlos.ar...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 August 2012 21:41
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Epub3 - zip, or not ?
Richard
.
From: Kevin O. Grover [ke...@kevingrover.net]
Sent: 31 August 2012 03:39
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - zip, or not ?
Zip is just a compression format. zip is the Info-zip program to create
: DaveP [da...@dpawson.co.uk]
Sent: 31 August 2012 13:12
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - zip, or not ?
On 08/31/2012 12:51 PM, Kerry, Richard wrote:
zip is the Info-zip program to create and manipulate zip files.
I know that (and I already knew
I decided to try building an epub from my DocBook document, using epub3 .
Following the instructions in the README.
Step 1. XSL (epub3/chunk.xsl) to generate Xhtml and other files.
That seems to work fine.
Step 2. Copy in any image files.
I wrote some XSL to scan package.opf and
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From: Kerry, Richard
Sent: 30 August 2012 11:22
To: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org]
Subject: Epub3 - zip, or not ?
I decided to try building an epub from
Not knowing about the xlsx (sic) unpacking facility in Saxon, and having had no
success trying to automate Excel internally, I've recently written a simple C++
program to take an Excel spreadsheet file and convert it to XML. From there
I'm using Xsl to generate the Xml I really want.
As it's
I'd like to apply a striped effect to some tables that I'm creating in some
Html-Help (ie chm) that I'm generating from DocBook.
Has anyone already done this ?
Is there a setting already available or will I need to customize something ?
In which case what ?
(I'd also like to do it in a
.
From: Bob Stayton [b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 10 August 2012 18:34
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Striped tables in Html Help
Do you mean something like what is described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl
Please can someone direct me to an authoritative explanation of what
constitutes a valid XML file ?
I've been provided with some XML files which are a bit like this :
?xml?
category id=information
section id=general
element id=fileinfo /
/section
/category
category id=device
section
Stefan,
Thanks for that, but I know most of it already.
The issue is that if I'm to get the supplier to change their software or docs
I'll need to be able refer to an authoritative source.
Appreciatlvely,
Richard.
-Original Message-
From: Stefan Hinz
Just putting together a new DocBook system using Saxon.
Using Docbook 5. (5.1 still looks to be beta)
Should I be using Saxon 6 or 9 ?
And if 6 I note that there are some extensions available. In that case do I
just need what's in extensions (ie extensions/saxon65.jar) or should I use
Just putting together a new DocBook system using Saxon.
Using Docbook 5. (5.1 still looks to be beta)
Should I be using Saxon 6 or 9 ?
And if 6 I note that there are some extensions available. In that case do I
just need what's in extensions (ie extensions/saxon65.jar) or should I use
Are you sure ?
I'm looking at docbook-xsl-ns-1.77.1/README
There are sections : Background, How these stylesheets were produced, How to
use these stylesheets, Customizing these stylesheets, Report any problems.
In none of them can I see the list of file-names I'm expecting (and that I am
Are you sure ?
I'm looking at docbook-xsl-ns-1.77.1/README
There are sections : Background, How these stylesheets were produced, How to
use these stylesheets, Customizing these stylesheets, Report any problems.
In none of them can I see the list of file-names I'm expecting (and that I am
really be
used in isolation. Or is that the intention ?
Regards,
Richard.
From: Kerry, Richard
Sent: 09 July 2012 15:46
To: DocBook Apps
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Where'a the names of the top-level stylesheets ?
Are you sure ?
I'm looking at docbook-xsl-ns
Bit of a beginner question here, I think
I've just downloaded and unpacked the 1.77 stylesheets (ns) from Sourceforge.
I can't find the documentation of which are the top-level stylesheets (ie the
file-names for them).
Can someone tell me where to find them; I'm sure there used
I note that Bob's DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide is currently at its Fourth
Edition, dated 2007.
Is there any expectation of a fifth edition in the near future ?
Or perhaps a specific reason why that won't happen ?
Appreciatively,
Richard.
[Blue line]
Richard Kerry
BNCS
Bit of a beginner question here, I think
I've just downloaded and unpacked the 1.77 stylesheets (ns) from Sourceforge.
I can't find the documentation of which are the top-level stylesheets (ie the
file-names for them).
Can someone tell me where to find them; I'm sure there used
Team,
I am setting up a Docbook system.
When I did so for the first time for some tests a couple of years ago I didn't
worry too much about whether everything was done using the best tools, or in
the best way.
This time I want to be a bit more certain I'm doing things the best way and not
Team,
I have a DocBook source file that includes a reference to a png file for
a diagram.
When I generate a pdf file from it (via FO using FOP) I need to specify
a scaling.
ie
imagedata fileref=./Diagrams/Flowchart.png scale=35 /
When I generate an html file I don't.
ie
imagedata
.
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 04 February 2009 17:54
To: Kerry, Richard; Docbook Apps
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Using draft images with fop, and
catalogs.
Hi Richard,
I don't think FOP has
I am using Saxon and FOP to generate PDF files from DocBook. And I'm
using a draft image.
My customized stylesheet for DocBook-FO includes a value for the
parameter draft.watermark.image. It is currently the full local path to
the draft.png file that I am using (ie somethiing like
on the FOP list about how to get it to use catalogs as I
can't see anything in the documentation.
Appreciatively,
Richard.
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: 04 February 2009 17:00
To: Kerry, Richard; Docbook Apps
Is it the same problem? A command line for Windows wouldn't work
since (AFAIK) there is no continuation character?
The continuation character for Windows is ^
Helpfully,
Richard.
-
To unsubscribe, e-mail:
I've just been working on a document and I find some behaviour I'd like
to stop.
I'm writing some instructions for a process.
Part of the instructions concerns software to install and I've included
ulink elements pointing to a selection of zip files.
This is all fine when generating a single
See the thread I started on 17/12/2007, Headed Fop unable to render
tables ? (without intervention ?).
The outcome is that you need to put a processing instruction
?dbfo keep-together=auto ?
In your FO.
And I think you need to use the latest snapshot version of the xsl
stylesheets from
]
Sent: 17 December 2007 15:49
To: Kerry, Richard
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ?
(without intervention ?)
On 17/12/2007, Kerry, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip/
Fop is version 0.94, which I think is the latest.
snip
else I need to change ?
Appreciatively,
Richard.
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-Original Message-
From: Kerry, Richard
Sent: 18 December 2007 11:16
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables
Thank you, but, recent snapshot release of what ?
Docbook-xsl ? Or Fop ?
Appreciatively,
Richard.
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From: Mauritz Jeanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 December 2007 16:39
To: Kerry, Richard; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps
I have a DocBook document which I wish to convert to pdf and I'm having
a problem with Fop rendering the tables.
I've used the Xsl stylesheet to convert it to Xsl-Fo. Originally with
no parameters set. I then use Fop version 0.94 to generate pdf.
The DocBook document contains several
If I'm using Saxon-9 I can say !indent=yes to tell Saxon to behave as if
the indent attribute of xsl:output has been set to 'yes'.
Is there an equivalent in Saxon-6 ? (I'd like to get my fo output
indented).
Or I might go back to Saxon-9 for that particular output format.
Regards,
I've been using Saxon for a while and have just started using it to do
DocBook transformations.
I'm getting a problem with Chunked Html.
I'm getting a message saying Saxon 9.0.0.1 doesn't know how to chunk,
which I don't really believe.
I presume I've failed to do some basic bit of
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