[docbook-apps] force.blank.pages 0 messes up footers

2023-07-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
I have been using the default value, 1, for force.blank.pages but wanted to try setting it to 0 to conserve page count. It works as expected except that when a chapter starts on a verso page, the page numbers appear on the inside (binding side) of the page. Is there another stylesheet parameter

Re: [docbook-apps] Multiplatform toolchain for outputting "nice" PDF

2022-11-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
As someone who made a similar update, I can provide some perspective. Much of your tool chain may be old, but it's actually "mature," not "outdated." The most limiting element of your tool chain is likely fop. When I migrated from dsssl and jadeTeX to an xsl tool chain, I considered fop alongsid

[docbook-apps] Re: Row Breaks Across Pages

2022-04-13 Thread Kevin Dunn
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html scroll down to "Table page breaking." Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android From: Beth Van Wie Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:37:34 PM To: docboo

Re: [docbook-apps] Figure floats in fo

2022-02-05 Thread Kevin Dunn
ocbook-apps] Figure floats in fo On 05/02/2022 16:59, Kevin Dunn wrote: > I can get formal and informal figures to float to the top of the page > using the methods described in DbXsl TCG p. 296 and Antenna House > Formatter. And I can get them to float right and left by wrapping > them in

[docbook-apps] Figure floats in fo

2022-02-05 Thread Kevin Dunn
I can get formal and informal figures to float to the top of the page using the methods described in DbXsl TCG p. 296 and Antenna House Formatter. And I can get them to float right and left by wrapping them in a sidebar, as on page 232. But when I try to float them left or right on their own, I

Re: [docbook-apps] Multiple languages in PDF?

2022-01-02 Thread Kevin Dunn
I'll put in a plug for AH Formatter. I love open-source tools, and use them when I can. But after fighting with FOP for a while, only to discover repeatedly that it didn't implement the features I needed, I downloaded the free trial versions of AH Formatter and RenderX XEP. Both were much more p

[docbook-apps] Header and footer alignment for center cell

2021-07-19 Thread Kevin Dunn
In double-sided xsl-fo, how can you control text-align for the center cell of the header or footer table (usually chapter or section title)? Using the attribute-set footer.table.properties, I can set text-align, but it doesn't distinguish between recto and verso pages. "center" centers the cente

[docbook-apps] docbook xsl-fo preferred indexterms for ahf and fop

2021-07-09 Thread Kevin Dunn
I read Bob's chapter on indexes, particularly the bottom of page 321 (Fourth Ed). There is an XEP extension to mark the page numbers in bold for preferred indexterms. If I understand correctly, this doesn't work for Antenna House Formatter (my chosen processor) or FOP (at least it didn't for me)

Re: [docbook-apps] Do different xslt processors and parsers really make a difference for pdf output?

2021-07-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
//aka.ms/ghei36> From: Norm Tovey-Walsh Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 12:46 PM To: Kevin Dunn Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Do different xslt processors and parsers really make a difference for pdf output? Kevin Dunn writes:

[docbook-apps] Do different xslt processors and parsers really make a difference for pdf output?

2021-07-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
I am processing DocBook 4.5 test files under Linux using a variety of xslt processors with optional parsers and xsl-fo processors. I can see the difference between pdfs produced by fop, xep and ahf. They each have different features and produce different outputs. I do not have a feel for the di

[docbook-apps] Lists of Tables, Figures, etc in xsl-fo

2021-06-27 Thread Kevin Dunn
I've be studying Bob's XSL book, but I can't seem to find out how to change the pagination on book TOCs and LOTs. I've figured out how to specify which LOTs get built (tables, figures, etc), but each of them appears on PDF as a separate recto-verso pair, with the verso being empty in each case.

[docbook-apps] Re: Titlepage learning curve

2021-06-23 Thread Kevin Dunn
ke in my custom xsl that generates two blocks with the same id. From: Kevin Dunn Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:13 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: Titlepage learning curve My intention was to add a half-titlepage. I've

[docbook-apps] Re: Titlepage learning curve

2021-06-23 Thread Kevin Dunn
r and titlepage. BUT only at the expense of mixing DB 4.5 and DB 5 elements, i.e., info and bookinfo in the same document. This seems like a no-no, right? What am I missing? ____ From: Kevin Dunn Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:57 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-op

[docbook-apps] Re: Titlepage learning curve

2021-06-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
I found this for adding a half title. I worked like a charm: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/201212/msg2.html From: Kevin Dunn Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 5:00 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Titlepage learning curve I am

[docbook-apps] Titlepage learning curve

2021-06-18 Thread Kevin Dunn
I am working my way through http://doccookbook.sourceforge.net/html/en/dbc.fo.style-titlepages.html and http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html I think I understand the broad outline, but there are a couple of things that I may not understand yet. 1. As I understand it, the bi

Re: [docbook-apps] insert.link.page.number in xsl stylesheets

2021-06-15 Thread Kevin Dunn
he default. link recognizes only nopage. Anything else gives the default. From: Bob Stayton Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:25 AM To: Kevin Dunn ; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] insert.link.page.number in xsl stylesheets Hi Kevin, Inde

Re: [docbook-apps] insert.link.page.number in xsl stylesheets

2021-06-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
added single quotes around the word yes). Bob Stayton b...@sagehill.net<mailto:b...@sagehill.net> On 6/14/2021 12:05 PM, Kevin Dunn wrote: I'm customizing xrefs to render page numbers in pdf files for print. Setting insert.xref.page.number to yes, and using an xrefstyle attribute, I can

[docbook-apps] insert.link.page.number in xsl stylesheets

2021-06-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
I'm customizing xrefs to render page numbers in pdf files for print. Setting insert.xref.page.number to yes, and using an xrefstyle attribute, I can get the desired output, e.g. "See Appendix B (page 127)." Page number for links do not work as I would expect from reading http://www.sagehill.net

[docbook-apps] AH Formatter initial-letters Drop Cap Customization

2021-06-13 Thread Kevin Dunn
The learning curve for transitioning from dsssl to xsl has not been as steep as I had imagined. I had been using the lettrine package in my dsssl-jadetex customization. I now have an xsl customization that calls the AH Formatter initial-letters extension, with all the functionality I had come to

[docbook-apps] acronym and small caps

2021-06-12 Thread Kevin Dunn
Apologies for the newbie question, but I'm reading the 1.79.1 xsl stylesheets using eyes that are accustomed to reading dsl. I found the fo/inline.xsl file where acronym is processed. It looks like it just passes its contents through unchanged (which is how it looks in pdf produced by fop, xep a

Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019

2021-06-11 Thread Kevin Dunn
t they won't be about docbook2pdf. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ____ From: Kevin Dunn Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021, 6:06 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texl

Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019

2021-06-11 Thread Kevin Dunn
of "newbie guide" for it? As much as I hate to flush all my dsssl-jadetex customizations, it seems like xsl-fo is going to be the way to go. From: Norm Tovey-Walsh Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 11:00 AM To: Kevin Dunn Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org S

Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019

2021-06-11 Thread Kevin Dunn
xsltproc-fop and xsltproc-xep. Are there other combinations for less than a thousand dollars? From: Dave Pawson Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 3:49:18 AM To: Kevin Dunn Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbo

[docbook-apps] Two nagging problems with docbook2pdf in texlive 2019

2021-06-10 Thread Kevin Dunn
page numbers and Lists correct, but again, I'd be starting over on my stylesheets. Any suggestions on fixing these issues? Thanks in advance, Kevin Dunn

[docbook-apps] dbadmon.dsl and latex

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin Dunn
I have customized the graphical admonitions starting from the mandrake version of inlinegraphic. This places the graphics next to the text of the admonition rather than even with the top line. It does everything I would like it to except use the admon-graphic-width parameter, which I have hard-c

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: dsl + jadetex font tweaking

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
>Kevin Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have an almost insignificant problem that I have had little >> success in understanding--the degree symbol in my generated pdf has >> extra whitespace at the end. I have looked in the .tex output from >> openja

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: page numbers in dsssl xrefs

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Adam DiCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:14:53 -0600 >Kevin Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The problem is that the page numbers are occasionally wrong when a >> floating f

DOCBOOK-APPS: page numbers in dsssl xrefs

2003-02-27 Thread Kevin Dunn
Looking back at the archives I found out how to add page numbers to xrefs. The following almost works: (define (en-xref-strings) (list (list (normalize "appendix")(if %chapter-autolabel% "Appendix %n" "t

DOCBOOK-APPS: dsl + jadetex font tweaking

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Dunn
I have an almost insignificant problem that I have had little success in understanding--the degree symbol in my generated pdf has extra whitespace at the end. I have looked in the .tex output from openjade and jadetex and there is no extra whitespace there. I can only suspect that tex itself thi

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: section titles as links,turning off in non-htmloutput

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Doug du Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:34:25 +0900 >On Monday 24 February 2003 03:37, ed nixon wrote: >> I may have painted myself into a corner while trying to create some >> (h

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: image sizes

2003-02-19 Thread Kevin Dunn
>Doug du Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am using dsssl with openjade and the docbook stylesheets to render html and >> with pdfjadetex to render pdf format. >> >> I would like to know what is the best way to control image sizes in both >> output formats from the docbook markup. >>

DOCBOOK-APPS: what html dtd is followed by dsssl stylesheets

2003-01-23 Thread Kevin Dunn
I just tried unsuccessfully to validate the html version of my sgml docbook processed with openjade and dsssl 1.76b. What dtd do these stylesheets target and do I need to do something to get a doctype at the beginning of each html file? As it is, they begin with "." When I process my website wi

DOCBOOK-APPS: book and website navigation

2003-01-18 Thread Kevin Dunn
I have an official website built with the Website 2.3 DTD (xsl, xsltproc). I have a DocBook book (currently sgml, dsl, openjade) that I would like to serve from my official website. I would like to navigate between the website and the book. I have 2 approaches that I have tried experimentally:

DOCBOOK-APPS: website and dir

2003-01-14 Thread Kevin Dunn
I am using website 2.3 and have within layout.xml: myfile.xml contains: which works fine. Using "./graphics/mygif.gif" in fileref, the browser will look in mydir/graphics. Using "/graphics/mygif.gif" the browser will look in the root directory of the server. I would like to keep all of my gra

DOCBOOK-APPS: multiple tocs in website

2002-12-30 Thread Kevin Dunn
What is the purpose of having multiple s in website? I have experimented with it and can see how it works; it is almost as if it builds two completely separate websites, but with the same "look and feel." Under what circumstances are multiple s within a single preferable to two completely diffe

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: bookmark and index problems (and a partial solution)

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >My first problem has been reported here before (I saw it in the >archive), but no one could reproduce it or suggest a fix. The PDF >bookmarks aren't nesting properly. Specifically, sections are being >promoted to the top level as if they were chapters. I haven't been >able to work ar

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xml editor $99

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin Dunn
I use epcedit under both Linux and Windows. I find it very easy to use. I started using it two years ago and they have allowed me a free upgrade each time they have come out with a new release. Well worth $99 IMHO. -- Original Message -- From: Dave Pawson

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to use appendixes

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >> In short, the tag should be used for things other >> than indices, glossaries, bibliographies, etc. If you markup >> a glossary inside an appendix, it its the glossary for the >> appendix, not for the larger document. > >Well, if I open any nonfiction book from my board, I find exactly th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to use appendixes

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Stephan Wiesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:22:19 +0100 >Hi list, >I want to use appendixes, but somehow it seems I got something wrong. >Here is an example: > >MyIndex > > > > I am using the dsl tool chain, bu

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Annotations Tags

2002-09-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >My documents contain annotations entered by readers. They have a >mailadress, a name, date and some text. Which docbook tag might I use >for them? Note is not good, as I use this a lot. > You can use prior to docbook 4.0 or after 4.0. You can control whether these get printed by using (def

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Goal and Conclusion Tags

2002-09-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
>possibility to start each chapter with a 'goal' ('What you will learn') >and end it with a 'conclusion' ('What you learned'). This is very >important for my style of writing and many of my readers praised me for >this structuring. I use a similar structure. Of course, you could have the "goal"

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Goal and Conclusion Tags

2002-09-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
>possibility to start each chapter with a 'goal' ('What you will learn') >and end it with a 'conclusion' ('What you learned'). This is very >important for my style of writing and many of my readers praised me for >this structuring. I use a similar structure. Of course, you could have the "goal"

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Goal and Conclusion Tags

2002-09-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
>possibility to start each chapter with a 'goal' ('What you will learn') >and end it with a 'conclusion' ('What you learned'). This is very >important for my style of writing and many of my readers praised me for >this structuring. I use a similar structure. Of course, you could have the "goal"

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating thumbpdfs PDF documents [Solution]

2002-09-19 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >4) Enjoy the thumbnails in your new pdf > Very cool. I get the thumbnail images with sgml and dsssl 1.76b, but the thumbnails do not link to the actual pages. Do I need to do something else? -- Kevin M. Dunn Professor of Chemistry Hampden-Sydney College --

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: openjade - chapter rendering and other quesions

2002-06-13 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >(declare-characteristic two-side-start-on-right? > "UNREGISTERED::OpenJade//Characteristic::two-side-start-on-right?" >#f) > > Note that (define %two-side-start-on-right% #f) ought to be enough, but it isn't due to a stylesheet error in docbook.dsl. This has been reported to sourceforge

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Treatment of links in print

2002-06-05 Thread Kevin Dunn
>to give >I would like to render > >For an example of this procedure, refer to >Foo > > >As > >"For an example of this procedure, refer to Foo (p. 29)" > >Where 29 is the page. I'd also be satisfied with > >"1.2.3 Foo" where 1.2.3 is the subsection. > You could use, for example ... This is th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Subtitles in DSSSL

2002-05-12 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Christopher Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:37:04 -0400 >I cannot figure out how to fix subtitles on book title pages. They are not >centered. Any hints? > (define %division-subtitle-quadding% ;; REFENTRY

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: PDF

2002-03-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >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 >} > When I print my PDF on a color laser printer

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: different depth of TOC for different elements

2002-02-24 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:37:24 -0500 >Hi all: >does anyone know how to make TOC's for different elements (book, part, >chapter...) have different depth? I.e., I want TOC for the book only

DOCBOOK-APPS: PDF bookmarks in dsl 1.76

2002-02-24 Thread Kevin Dunn
docbook-dsssl-1.74b, openjade-1.3.1, and jadetex-3.10 produced PDF bookmarks for chapters. Clicking on one of the ">" marks would expand the chapter to show the sections within, i.e. >Chapter 1. Sometitle >Chapter 2. Sometitle ^Chapter 3. Sometitle Section 3.1. Sometitle Section 3.2. Some

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Very poor images (different problems)

2001-11-15 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:42:45 -0500 (EST) >On 11 Nov 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > >> En dom, 2001-11-11 a 20:53, Allin Cottrell escribió: >> > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Julio Merino wrote: >> > >>

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: epcEdit

2001-10-17 Thread Kevin Dunn
- >> I'm looking for any information anyone here might have on epcEdit (beyond > >I've used epcEdit and found it to work very well. It's got a decent Ditto. >Dislikes: > > * non-Free software But the price is reasonable. Epcedit comes with some DTD's already installed. I found that installin

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-20 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: klaas holwerda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:12:18 +0200 >Hi, > >I always use a standard text editor (scintilla or nedit) with only XML >tag highlighting. > I really like epcedit (www.epcedit.com) Runs under lin

DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex suit characters

2001-08-16 Thread Kevin Dunn
I am using dsssl 1.71 and jadetex 3.10. I have ♥ ♠ etc in my sgml source. Jade transforms these into \Character{9825}, etc in the .tex file. Spades and clubs look great, diamonds is a square rather than a rhombus, and hearts does not print at all. The .log file contains "Warning: Unknown charact

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-25 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- 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 graphics into PDF from Docbook. > Look in the *.log file. TeX will give you an error message when it fails to l

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)

2001-07-24 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:07:31 -0500 >Jeffrey Franks wrote: > \>>> > >> Do you ever find you need to "tweak" the original XML markup >> to get an acceptable PDF result? Hopefully, answer is "no" s

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FO (was db2latex)

2001-07-24 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Michel Goossens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:33:50 +0200 (METDST) >> true. if you think the TeX-based route has any real future. >Yes, but I want to typeset DocBook (TEI, eBook,...) documents containing >Math tod

DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex and lot page numbers

2001-07-16 Thread Kevin Dunn
Thanks to Sebastian, Norm, and many others, dsl + jade + jadetex is putting out some pretty nice PDF. There is, for my document, one persistent nagging problem: LOT's have the wrong page numbers for any formal object which is bumped to the next page. What is the point, after all, of an LOT if t

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex 3.9

2001-07-13 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Ian Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:46:51 +0100 >I think there is a typo in jadetex.dtx (see below) > >>\if#1{qqq} > ^^ > >I have > \ifx#1{qqq} > I just spent the evening figuring th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex 3.9

2001-07-12 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:10:05 -0500 >Hi Sebastian, > >Looks like there are still some issues. I've fetched and installed 3.9, >and I'm still getting undefined references messages, and wierdness

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with preface and jadetex

2001-07-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
Sorry, should habe been: > >At the beginning of the Preface, change > >{1}\def\PageNumberRestart% >{1}\def\PageNumberFormat% >{i}\def\StartIndent% << > >to > >{1}\def\PageNumberRestart% >{1}\def\PageNumberFormat% >{1}\def\StartIndent% > -- Kevin M. Dunn Professor of Chemistry H

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with preface and jadetex

2001-07-06 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: "o.t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:34:24 +0200 >dsssl stylesheets 1.70, jadetex 3.7, openjade 1.3 > >I didn't have this problem with jadetex 3.5. > >I have a document with a preface. I produce TeX output and run

DOCBOOK-APPS: alternate ulinks for print and html?

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Dunn
Is it possible to provide different URLs for ulinks depending on whether I am using a print or html stylesheet? I don't want to do this for all ulinks, just select ones. I am picturing something like: Somewhere Somewhere Else where only one of these would generate a link, depending on the backen

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Typesetting Mathematics with DocBook

2001-06-18 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: "Rafael R. Sevilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:13:05 +0800 (PHT) > >I guess the only way to go as far as this is concerned is to use >PassiveTeX and MathML. After about five years of working with LaTeX I FYI

DOCBOOK-APPS: jadetex installation documentation

2001-06-11 Thread Kevin Dunn
One minor correction to the jadetex installation documentation: before "make install" you must run mktexlsr if you have just built "hugelatex". Otherwise, make exits with an error about not knowing where hugetex.fmt is. -- Kevin M. Dunn Professor of Chemistry Hampden-Sydney College --

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Some contributed admon graphics ...

2001-05-12 Thread Kevin Dunn
They look good. One suggestion I would make would be concerning the "warning" graphic. When printed on a B&W printer, red becomes dark gray and the "!" gets lost. If you make it a lighter shade of red, the "!" will show up, but then it looks just like "important". I would suggest making "warning"

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Admonition graphics in eps?

2001-05-07 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >>Hi, >> >>Are the admonition graphics available in source form or as EPS files? Using >>a gif or png in a print document is not the best quality ... >> > OK, I made some eps versions of the graphics but haven't tested them, as I print from pdf not from ps. So if you want to try them out, the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Admonition graphics in eps?

2001-05-07 Thread Kevin Dunn
>Hi, > >Are the admonition graphics available in source form or as EPS files? Using >a gif or png in a print document is not the best quality ... > I made up a set of high-res (600 dpi) png admonition graphics which look good in print. For example, see cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/docbook/admon.pdf If you

DOCBOOK-APPS: qanda indentation

2001-05-01 Thread Kevin Dunn
When a qanda contains multiple paragraphs, the first one starts after the Q or A, but the following paragraphs fall back to the left margin. Is there a way to indent all paragraphs inside a or so that their left margins are equally indented? Admonitions do this with $admon-graphic-width$, fo

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Overfull \hbox in alignment

2001-04-30 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- >TeX is *very* picky about having each line *exactly* the right length. The >hyphen's in the log are the hyphens that TeX knows about but adding any of >them in to the text would generate one possibly two underfull \hbox >warnings. T

DOCBOOK-APPS: LOT on same page as TOC?

2001-04-30 Thread Kevin Dunn
By default, the stylesheets begin LOT's on a new page following the LOC. My LOC spills one entry onto a second page, the rest is blank, and the LOT's begin on the following page. Is there an (easy) way to get the LOT's to follow the LOC without starting a new page? -- Kevin M. Dunn Professor of C

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Overfull \hbox in alignment

2001-04-30 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Rudi Chiarito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:47:46 -0500 > >Using OpenJade, Norman's stylesheets and JadeTeX, I get many messages >like this when processing a .tex file with pdfjadetex: > >Overfull \hbox (2.797pt

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generated text survey

2001-03-29 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >Will anyone familiar with a language that requires more sophisticated >gentext, please describe what the rules are? I'm not looking for a >specific stylesheet solution, just a description of the problem >to be solved. > I'm not sure this is what you're asking for, but I have a nit to pick on c

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Admonition graphic indenting in PDF

2001-03-22 Thread Kevin Dunn
>When generating a PDF file with admonition graphics, only the first line >is indented, and the text is lined up with the bottom corner of the I am also generating pdf with admonition graphics. However, my graphics behave the way that you would like them to, and they have done so for as long a

DOCBOOK-APPS: secondary index term in print dsssl

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Dunn
I am still using Norm's 1.61 stylesheet but I haven't seen this one in the archives, so perhaps it hasn't been fixed: When using pdfjadetex, the secondaryie's come out in a larger font size (i.e. the body font size) than the primaryie's. Looking at dbindex.dsl, I added the following to my driver:

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Does JadeTeX work? (& Juan's response)

2001-03-12 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Sebastian Rahtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:08:14 + >David Nelson writes: > > 1. Erroneous page numbers: when a figure or a section near the bottom > >of a page gets wrapped over to the next page, the p

DOCBOOK-APPS: Admonition graphics for print (was Re: Still cannot getadmonition graphics)

2001-03-05 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 19:06:00 +1000 > >OK, I converted them to jpg > OK, jpg should work. Of course you need >>(define admon-graphic-default-extension >> ;; REFENTRY admon-graphic-default-ex

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Still cannot get admonition graphics

2001-03-04 Thread Kevin Dunn
-- Original Message -- From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:57:12 -0500 >Invalid final delivery userid: have > I have admonition graphics working with PDFJadetex. I had to do the following: 1. Convert the admonition gra

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Rendering characters in inverse video

2001-03-03 Thread Kevin Dunn
> >I want to render one character, the chapter number, in inverse video on the I have a more general question: Is it possible to add new character sets in addition to the iso-ents? I am using Docbook 4.1 SGML + jade + jadetex + dsssl + NW stylesheet 1.60 under Redhat 6.1. I can see where the I