Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook setup on Debian 3.0

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Smith
Mike M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 03:43, Yann Dirson wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0500, Mike M wrote: I want to restart my DocBook efforts.  I have SGML source and want to produce HTML and PDF docs. Should I start by installing these

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Smith
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It happens that the following idea just reached my concious mind, so I try to followup to the correct thread. IIRC the context was about validating documents before or after xinclude processing. My opinion is still that we need to be able to validate

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Smith
Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It isn't that we (the DocBook Technical Committee) don't want to add an xinclude element, or that we think it is not needed. It would be easy to add an xinclude element to the DTD. But that isn't enough, because the xinclude element must appear in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: problems with publishing cvs refguide

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Smith
Dumas Patrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:55:01PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrice DUMAS - DOCT) was heard to say: | book.xml:9: warning: failed to load external entity ../../docbook/ebnf/ebnf-4.2CR1.dtd | ] You need the custom DTD

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Validate XML documents within Emacs

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Smith
Hi Sidney, [cc'ing DaveP to give him a heads-up that this might be worth adding to the FAQ] You wrote: How can I set the XML_CATALOG_FILES to XML catalog file within Emacs such that I can evaliate(C-c C-v) XML documents using OASIS XML Catalogs(XML syntax catalog files)? There's no

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XEP for $80

2002-10-15 Thread Michael Smith
Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those of you who would like a better XSL-FO processor and can afford to go beyond the free FOP and PassiveTeX, I just learned that RenderX XEP is available for $80 in the version that stamps each page with their company name. This is not the free

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XEP for $80

2002-10-15 Thread Michael Smith
Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2:13 PM -0700 10/15/02, Bob Stayton wrote: For those of you who would like a better XSL-FO processor and can afford to go beyond the free FOP and PassiveTeX, I just learned that RenderX XEP is available for $80 in the version that stamps

DOCBOOK-APPS: Add new =?unknown?q?=A0ommon=2Eelement?= parameterentity globally?

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Smith
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I started to extend the DocBook DTD to permit xi:include, | but I think it is kind of impossible (except for maybe | Norm 8^). The xi:include element can replace *any* | element or group of elements,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Add new (googley moogley)

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Smith
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experience with Framemaker 7.o anyone?

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Smith
Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] However, I can't say I would recommend FM7 as an XML *editor* for DocBook yet, because the round trip experience is not what you would expect. I'm investigating using it as a final format engine for PDF or print output, where it only imports the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mozilla Site Navigation toolbar hack

2002-06-09 Thread Michael Smith
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Since the Mozilla folks have removed the site navigation bar in recent releases, I dug around until I figured out how to put it back. See http://nwalsh.com/hacks/mozilla/ I've also published a more DocBook-specific toolbar there. I don't know

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mozilla Site Navigation toolbar hack

2002-06-09 Thread Michael Smith
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Since the Mozilla folks have removed the site navigation bar in recent releases, I dug around until I figured out how to put it back. See http://nwalsh.com/hacks/mozilla/ I've also published a more DocBook-specific toolbar there. I don't know

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About DB2LaTeX

2002-06-06 Thread Michael Smith
Ramon Casellas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many of the comments and bug reports I receive about DB2LaTeX concern the escaping of characters as well as internationalization. I'm thinking about how I could improve the package, and using external modules with java and/or C++ is an option.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xsltproc segfaults with 1.51.1

2002-06-05 Thread Michael Smith
Daniel Veillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:09:39AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote: Camille Bégnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, tracking down to the code causing the error was easier than I thought: the following sample works fine with 1.48 and makes xsltproc

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with Next/Prev links when usinghtml/chunk.xml

2002-06-04 Thread Michael Smith
-- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp://sideshowbarker.net #x30DE;#x30A4;#x30AF; Both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm, And great men do great good or else great harm. --John Webster (The White Devil, ca. 1610)

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Smith
Bob Stayton writes: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:30:17PM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: About my error message: Error chapter is not a chunk! Writing for chapter runtime error: file /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.50.0/html/chunker.xsl line 79 element document

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Smith
Daniel Veillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:03:34AM -0500, Michael Smith wrote: It appears that at least one thing that will cause this problem is having spaces in a refname. The current db2man code takes the refname yes libxslt doesn't cope well

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Smith
stylesheet be expected to deal with translating all those into some other valid character? --Mike -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp://sideshowbarker.net #x30DE;#x30A4;#x30AF; All historical accounts were altered to hide the COSMIC SECRET of resonation theory. the Secret Masters don't want

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Comments on 1.50.1-EXP, please!

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Smith
linkend=preface/./para /chapter /book -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp://sideshowbarker.net #x30DE;#x30A4;#x30AF; They moved the Great Pyramid to destroy its geometric alignment. All books were altered to conceal the TRUTH about harmonic reality totality physics. They altered the Bible

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: htmlhelp.xsl in docbook 1.50.0

2002-04-22 Thread Michael Smith
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Well, I'm for few days out of fast and cheap connection (just mobile phone with GPRS) and I found just 3 different and probably old copys of Xalan on my computer. However no one of them is able to process common chunk stylesheet. These version

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RTF?

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Smith
. BTW, I realize the Sourceforge site currently links to the OASIS archive, not the Redhat one. I will be changing that very soon. (If I'd known about the four-character limitation at OASIS, I would have linked to the Redhat archive to begin with.) HTH, --Mike -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japan

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: CSS + Beginner Style Question

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Smith
/current/doc/html/ht ml.stylesheet.type.html You can find lots of related information: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/styling/styling.html For question #5 (and much else), see: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch04.html David -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: problems with jclarks Driver and docbook-xsl-1.50.0

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Smith
Michael H.E. Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday, 27. March 2002 12:26, Glass, Eric wrote: The XT processor does not yet support the key function. You might try saxon (available at http://saxon.sourceforge.net/#F6.5.1) -- I have had the best results using this processor.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Callouts in XHTML

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Smith
Jason Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I'm running into a weird discrepancy using the HTML and XHTML XSL stylesheets. For both of them, programlisting inside a programlistingco gets turned into a pre element. With the HTML stylesheets, the callout img elements are being inserted

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: free DocBook tools that handle Japanese

2002-01-29 Thread Michael Smith
Hiroki Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: twaugh On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:44:51AM -0600, Michael Smith wrote: twaugh twaugh * XSLT engine: xsltproc (outputs ISO-8859-1 with character references twaugh for the Japanese

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-29 Thread Michael Smith
://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/ for the FO parameters: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/ It's also in the doc directory in the distribution -- doc/html/index.html and doc/fo/index.html -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp://sideshowbarker.net #x30DE;#x30A4

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: free DocBook tools that handle Japanese

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Smith
who have a better environment set up can maybe provide more details. --Mike -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp://sideshowbarker.net #x30DE;#x30A4;#x30AF; The Astounding subjects are the only ones we pass unmoved. --Emily Dickinson (*119) http://www.logopoeia.com/ed/

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook XML and XMLspy

2001-12-18 Thread Michael Smith
errors. I was working today with a document that I had validated with nsgmls, xmllint, and Xerces against the DocBook 4.1.2 DTD + EBNF module. I tried to open it in XML Spy and XML Spy reported errors in the DTD and so wouldn't let me work with the doc. -- Michael Smith, Tokyo, Japanhttp

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: What is docbook used for? (faq)

2001-12-08 Thread Michael Smith
Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Norm had this question asked of him, and rather than answer 'what can docbook be used for' I'd like to quote concrete examples. Would you mail me with additions please: Writing books (for print or web publishing) Websites Documenting Applications

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-08 Thread Michael Smith
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Norman Walsh wrote: With respect, I think that's abuse of the alt tag. Might I suggest instead supporting this with: I don't want abuse alt. But from my reading of alt element description in TDG: Description A text (or other nonvisual)

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

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Smith
Daniel Veillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:14:39PM -0500, Dan York wrote: So... in order to bring her up to speed the quickest, I would like to find a Windows GUI editor that she can use to work with DocBook XML. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have seen

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: need help with emacs psgml local variables to linkan external entity to it's parent

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Smith
Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a book.xml which includes a toc etc. where the chapters are included as external entiry refs (eg. chapter1.xml, chapter2.xml etc.). I remember seeing and myabe even using PSGML''s local varibale section at the base of the chapter?.xml

DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet for remapping/renaming elements

2001-11-01 Thread Michael Smith
Nik Clayton mentioned a way to remap DocBook elements to other element names -- that is, to take something like this: helpproject status=draft remap=article ... topic revisionflag=changed remap=section ... /topic /helpproject and turn it into this: article

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Smith
(though possibly not the `strlen(Dave Pawson) == 11!!!' Dave) wrote: At 09:18 30/10/2001 +0900, Michael Smith wrote: I don't think beginpage/ is intended to be used as a way to force pagebreaks in rendered output. I think it's supposed to be a way of indicating where a pagebreaks was in some

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-29 Thread Michael Smith
Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I tried to force a pagebreak using beginpage/, but there was no suitable result, just the red line.. beginpage/beginpage within the PDF. I don't think beginpage/ is intended to be used as a way to force pagebreaks in

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Admonitions

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Smith
[Any followups on this should go to docbook-apps] Ken Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All I am working with admonitions, specifically tip and warning and would like to include a graphic. I have tried using tip graphic=tip.gifTie your shoe laces.../tip but cannot seem to output the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: installing DocBook, XSLT support -- try XAE

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Smith
-- and in the case of HTML output, automatically launch a browser to show you the results. -Original Message- From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: installing DocBook, XSLT support -- try XAE

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

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Smith
Tom Epperly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I haven't been able to find a combination of tools that is capable of processing the online copy of DocBook The Definitive Guide (from SourceForge) or all the examples on the version 0.0.1 CD that comes with DocBook The Definitive Guide. The

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: extension for saxon 6.4.3 broken?

2001-07-25 Thread Michael Smith
Bradford, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would this also be the cause of the error below? java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet xmldiffmrg.xml htmlhelp.xsl Error java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: d Transformation failed: run-time errors were reported You're on Windows,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Q) newbie to docbook and chunking

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Smith
Rafael R. Sevilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: [...] At least when using FOP, I don't have the impression that the XSL route is yet ready for DocBook. One has to explicitly specify column widths in tables, chapter/section names in headers are not yet

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: PassiveTex problems

2001-06-11 Thread Michael Smith
Jirka Kosek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Gutbier wrote: I use the newest XSL docbook stylesheets together with PassiveTex and have several problems (saxon or xalan XSL processor): 1) error messages in Tex, when processing the resulting fo file: --Illegal unit of

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: using XSL

2001-03-07 Thread Michael Smith
Martin =?UNKNOWN?Q?Bohat=FD?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have simple DocBook XML document which contains following: ?xml version="1.0"? !DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD Simplified DocBk XML V3.1.7.1//EN" "c:/dbnew/docbookx.dtd" ?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Indicating Edits

2001-03-03 Thread Michael Smith
[moved here from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Jamie Smedsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | it and added text another color). Are there any tags in DocBook that indicate | edits or | lead to this type of formatting? What do other people do for editing?

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Indicating Edits

2001-03-03 Thread Michael Smith
[moved here from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Jamie Smedsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | it and added text another color). Are there any tags in DocBook that indicate | edits or | lead to this type of formatting? What do other people do for editing?

DOCBOOK-APPS: possible bug in XSL rendering of complex tables

2001-03-01 Thread Michael Smith
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | Also, in my experience at least, there are some complex tables (i.e. | ones with multiple horizontal and vertical spans) that the XSL | stylesheets won't process correctly, but the DSSSL

DOCBOOK-APPS: spanspec processing, OASIS Exchange table model

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Smith
Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Michael Smith wrote: [...] And the OASIS Exchange table model -- which I think will be the default in DocBook 5.0 -- doesn't allow spanspec at all, but requires you to specify horizontal spans on entry's. Do you have any

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook HTML Help stylesheet support for Xalan?

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Smith
Beth Fischi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This question is for Jirka Kosek in particular, but anyone else if they know. Jirka, I remember reading somewhere (one of the README files?) that the DocBook HTML Help stylesheet (under docbook\contrib\htmlhelp) currently supports XT, but not Xalan. I