Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL from DocBook refEntry -> man

2001-07-09 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
w. XSLT is designed to transform XML documents into other XML documents, and any attempt to make XSLT generate non-XML output is extremely troublesome, and in some cases XSLT will not allow you to make certain output constructions that you need to do because they violate the rules of XML. -- Rafa

DOCBOOK-APPS: Bug in FOP, or in the XSL stylesheets?

2001-06-22 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
here: http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/projects/xml-lit/xml-lit-1.0-incomplete.xml If you're wondering what this is, it's a literate programming system I'm developing. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines

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

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
entations stumble (in which case feedback to the developers of FOP or whatever tool fails would be good). -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ -BEGIN GEEK CO

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem executing Xalan or Saxon...

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
oject. Personally I think it's a kinda silly policy to bundle binaries of ALL dependenices, but I guess it helps, *if* you've got a lot of bandwidth! -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines

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

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
N mirror (since you're in Germany, from your email address, ftp.dante.de should do fine) and go to the tex-archive/systems/texlive directory there: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/ -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Interdot

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

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Vladimir Ivanovic wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote: > > > (standard TeX installations that come with the Linux distros I use > > don't work very well...I had to get the 250 meg TeXLive ISO to do > > it!). > >

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

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote: > > > Frankly, I found the DSSSL route much too clunky, so I decided to go the > > XSL route. Three things are needed to do it this way: > > [...] > > At le

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

2001-06-20 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
o set up than FOP (standard TeX installations that come with the Linux distros I use don't work very well...I had to get the 250 meg TeXLive ISO to do it!). -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 445

DOCBOOK-APPS: Typesetting Mathematics with DocBook

2001-06-14 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
And finally, how do I get the MathML DTD parsed by my DocBook document? Entities like ⁢ defined there cause errors when I try to use them. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.inte

DOCBOOK-APPS: Justification of document in Docbook-FO

2001-06-14 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
This happens with the XSL stylesheets, FO output, the generated PDF has those same characteristics whether converted to PDF by means of FOP (0.19.0 CVS) or PassiveTeX. G... -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slightly OT: Editor Encoding Issues

2001-06-12 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
t's how UTF-8 works...it's supposed to be Unicode rewritten to use 8-bit characters as much as possible... Just don't try doing any of the alt- sequences under Windows or with that option enabled on X though. I guess Emacs will automatically translate those kinds of inputs into proper UTF

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook Translets?

2001-06-11 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
Has anyone ever gotten Xalan 2.1.0 to compile the docbook stylesheets into Java translets? -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem generating slides (was Re: The slidesdoctype - XSL-FO output)

2001-06-08 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
with generating XSL-FO output have been addressed by this new version! -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem generating slides (was Re: The slidesdoctype - XSL-FO output)

2001-06-08 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
work and haven't had time to update it. :( If you like, sign my guestbook. At least I *think* that bit of Perl-CGI works! -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem generating slides (was Re: The slidesdoctype - XSL-FO output)

2001-06-08 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
ow XSLT works. I'll share my experiences with you if you wish. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925

DOCBOOK-APPS: How to make produce ANSI prototypes

2001-06-06 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
e DocBook XSL stylesheets, Saxon 6.3, and FOP 0.19.0 (CVS). -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925

DOCBOOK-APPS: The slides doctype - XSL-FO output

2001-06-05 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
tor, but someday I think I'm going to have to make a presentation that will have to be printed on acetate for an old-fashioned overhead projector, so the FO stylesheets would have to work then... -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925

DOCBOOK-APPS: weirdness

2001-05-22 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
about DSSSL, because I don't have a working version of Jade or some other DSSSL processor installed. And one other thing: I think that the text should not be full justified, but right justified or centered. Long titles like the one above appear quite ugly when they get rendered to PDF. -

DOCBOOK-APPS: Xalan 1.1 problems with 1.38 XSL stylesheets

2001-05-22 Thread Rafael R. Sevilla
. This does not happen with Saxon, or with Xalan using the HTML stylesheet. What could be the problem? Is this a bug with Xalan? -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4