[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Re: [docbook-apps] proposed additions to DocBook for programming languages

2019-04-29 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Salut Thibaut, On 2019-04-29 5:38 p.m., Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: Hi Stefan, The two tag sets serve a similar purpose, but are very different in their implementation: the Boost-based set looks like an equivalent to refentry & co. (the base item is an API/library), while the one I proposed on G

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook namespaced stylesheets

2018-06-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2018-06-06 02:42 PM, Niels Müller Larsen wrote: I finally got around to it. Downloaded the new namespaced stylesheets 1.79.2 from github and ran them with my normal updated toolchain. Just works. Wonderful, thanks for letting us know ! So all we need to do is produce a new release from gi

Re: [docbook-apps] Parameter reference source

2018-02-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 16.02.2018 12:14, Peter Desjardins wrote: > Hi! > > It seems that the parameter reference site is down: > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.75.2/doc/param.html. > > Does anyone know where the source for that reference is? As we have migrated away from sourceforge (to github), I was e

Re: [docbook-apps] GitHub XSL issues

2017-08-21 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/21/2017 05:31 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > Dear All, > > I am facing issue already reported and even fixed via pull request, but it > is still waiting for integrating. > > https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/32 > > I've already fixed it for myself, but I have several related que

Re: [docbook-apps] does not number...

2017-02-17 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 17.02.2017 13:26, Bob Stayton wrote: [...] > > Since you are using DocBook 5, I assume you are using the namespaced > version of the stylesheets, the one with "ns" in the directory name. > If not, I suggest you do so as it will be more efficient. (Minor correction: the above is true for versi

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.2 released

2016-12-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 15.12.2016 20:14, deannel...@aol.com wrote: > Good questions ;-) > > I downloaded the file "docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2.zip" from > https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/releases > > I have a template that pulls the docbook xsl version ($VERSION) > variable out and displays it (along wit

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.2 released

2016-12-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 15.12.2016 19:37, deannel...@aol.com wrote: > Stefan, > Sorry about the mislead. It is actually is the $VERSION that is > "snapshot". I am also using the nons version, > I don't know where $VERSION is actually generated - maybe version.xsl? > I think it is formatted from something else, buty I m

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.2 released

2016-12-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 15.12.2016 19:10, deannel...@aol.com wrote: > Stefan, > > The dbxslversion PI on this version still says "snapshot" not "1.79.2". > > Is that part of the release process that got missed in the conversion > to github? No idea. Can you point me to the exact location where that PI appears ? I'

[docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.2 released

2016-12-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
I'm proud to announce the availability of the 1.79.2 release of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. While this is a minor release only (with no new feature additions), it is a major milestone anyhow, which we have been working towards for a year: We have migrated the source repository from subversion (so

Re: [docbook-apps] Automatically detecting which PDFs are affected by changes in a DocBook Git commit

2016-10-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 26.10.2016 11:04, Bergfrid Skaara wrote: > Hi, > > We use Git to version control our modular DocBook XML code base. I´d > like to enforce stricter change management than what simply inspecting > the Git log manually offers. Specifically, I want to trace each > modular DocBook XML fie that has be

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Slides with Docbook

2015-11-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 10.11.2015 15:48, Norman Walsh wrote: > camille writes: >> that's really great news. We are interested in contributing to it, is it >> available anywhere yet? > No, not quite. I'll see if I can get it out this week or next, though > after three weeks on the road, I expect to be well and truly s

Re: [docbook-apps] Slides with Docbook

2015-10-29 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 29.10.2015 05:46, camille wrote: > Hello, > > we've been successfully generating S5 slides > (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) from DocBook. > It's very basic (one slide per section in an article) but works for > simple needs. Support for S5 has been integrated (together with some other back

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.0 release is available

2015-10-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 16.10.2015 02:10, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:25:51 -0400 > Stefan Seefeld wrote: > >> [... GitHub ...] >> DocBook as organization > Stefan, I fear your claim isn't completely right. :) Technically, > DocBook isn't an

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.79.0 release is available

2015-10-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Lars, On 15.10.2015 19:14, Lars Vogel wrote: > Hi Bob, > > thanks a bunch. I'm happy to hear about the move to Github. > > I missed that announcement. What is the current state of that move and > the new repository location? While I'm not Bob, I think I may answer that question :-) : DocBook a

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

2015-09-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 09/11/2015 12:56 PM, Katie Welles wrote: > Have any of you PDF + HTML output with Docbook? If anyone has such a project > and will be willing to show it off, send some URLs! I have been using DocBook to document APIs for a long time. Most recently I have been working on a C and C++ standard ba

Re: [docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code 2015 -- Last call for participants

2015-02-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 10/02/15 08:47 PM, Steve Ball wrote: > Hi All, > > My current project is to implement the DocBook roundtripping subsystem in a > Web browser, using Saxon-CE. However, I feel it needs to be more advanced > before getting a student to work on it. Happy to be convinced otherwise… Interesting ide

[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Google Summer of Code 2015 -- Last call for participants

2015-02-10 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 10/02/15 04:06 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 9.2.2015 22:32, Richard Hamilton wrote: >> So far, I've only received one message expressing interest in having the >> DocBook project apply to participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. > I can server as a mentor again. Me too. Here is a pro

[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-01-22 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 22/01/15 08:11 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Thanks for volunteering. > > Regarding the website, in about a week, if I get a few more interested people > saying they can participate, I'll update http://docbook.xmlpress.net for 2015. > > Anyone is welcome to look at that site now.

[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-01-21 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 21/01/15 07:44 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > At today's DocBook TC meeting, we discussed the possibility of applying to be > a mentoring organization for this year's Google Summer of Code. > > As many of you know, the DocBook project (as distinct from the DocBook TC, > though many people parti

Re: [docbook-apps] Restrictive Docbook XML editor which enforces Docbook schema?

2015-01-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 15/01/15 10:13 AM, Dan Shelton wrote: > On 15 January 2015 at 16:04, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >> On 15/01/15 10:01 AM, Dan Shelton wrote: >>> Is there a Docbook XML editor which enforces the Docbook schema during >>> editing? >>> >>> I am looking for

Re: [docbook-apps] Restrictive Docbook XML editor which enforces Docbook schema?

2015-01-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 15/01/15 10:01 AM, Dan Shelton wrote: > Is there a Docbook XML editor which enforces the Docbook schema during > editing? > > I am looking for an editor which loads the Docbook XML schema and then > only allows the creation of tags which are allowed at the current > position in the XML document

Re: [docbook-apps] support for xpointer

2014-09-19 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Thomas, On 2014-09-19 10:17, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:53:33 -0400 > Stefan Seefeld wrote: > >> [...] >> Ideally I would like to be able to encode the query in an attribute, >> much as I would have preferred with xpointer

Re: [docbook-apps] support for xpointer

2014-09-19 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2014-09-14 16:36, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > I didn't say it was elegant:-). > > I agree that DocBook transclusion may be the way to go. I need to look into > it further for our book process. > > And a multi-stage process works well for us. Maybe it's my long experience > with Un

Re: [docbook-apps] support for xpointer

2014-09-14 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 09/14/2014 02:02 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Regarding the question of pulling the second listitem from a section with a > particular id, I think the following will do the trick (I don't claim it's > the most elegant way to do this, but it works with xmllint): > > > xpointe

Re: [docbook-apps] support for xpointer

2014-09-14 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 09/14/2014 05:09 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 14.9.2014 3:22, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >> Can anyone confirm the state of xpointer support in xsltproc, or any >> other Free XSLT processor for that matter ? (For example, what about >> saxon ?) Are there any (free) test suites th

[docbook-apps] support for xpointer

2014-09-13 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, Sorry if the following is slightly off-topic. I'm trying to refactor a large docbook document (an API specification) into multiple documents, including relevant chunks of content from a "meta-model" document into a "language-bindings" document via xinclude / xpointer. I played a bit with

Re: [docbook-apps] Numbered paragraphs

2014-08-01 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/01/2014 06:47 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Before I dive into a customization, has anyone ever customized the fo > stylesheets to generate paragraph numbers? That is, sequentially numbering > every paragraph in a book from the beginning to the end. > > The ideal would be to put them into t

Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 mathml rendering

2014-06-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Tim, On 06/30/2014 02:35 PM, Tim Arnold wrote: > Hi, > This may not be a docbook issue, I'm not sure. > > I'm using epub3 stylesheets (1.78.1) from DocBook5 + MathML. > The math is passed through to the xhtml content using the 'mml': > namespace alias for MathML. > > However, the MathML is not

Re: [docbook-apps] PDF Output: calling a different page master for a specific element

2013-09-04 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2013-09-04 17:36, Jeff Hooker wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to call a specific page master for an element that contains a > specific attribute value. Essentially, if for long, narrow tables I want to > be able to call a three-column page master that prevents it from flowing over > a 100 pages

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook snapshot SVN problem

2013-05-03 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Bob, if that working copy doesn't contain any local edits, I suggest you simply blow away the tree and check out out from scratch. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docb

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook/XSL: What's the Subversion/SVN URL of the docbook-xsl-ns and docbook-xsl stylesheets?

2013-04-22 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/22/2013 11:39 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > Please let me know what is the Subversion/SVN URL of the docbook-xsl-ns and > docbook-xsl stylesheets that can be found here: > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshot/ . I want to do an "svn checkout"/"svn > co" command and update it using "

Re: [docbook-apps] using xpointer with modular DocBook

2013-04-14 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/14/2013 03:24 PM, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > If your variablelist has the ID "foo" and you want to refer to the > first varlistentry you can write: > xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(id(foo)/db:varlistentry[1]) Right, but that doesn't solve my problem of having to repeat the n

Re: [docbook-apps] using xpointer with modular DocBook

2013-04-14 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello Thomas, On 04/14/2013 02:56 PM, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > Hello Stefan, > > Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 14:08:03 schrieb Stefan Seefeld: >> [...] >> >> > >> xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:varlistentry[ >

[docbook-apps] using xpointer with modular DocBook

2013-04-14 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying to refactor a DocBook document a little, moving certain sections into an external document and xi:including them subsequently using xpointers. The document I want to refactor is a software API specification, where each definition contains a small section I'd like to move out int

Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Application

2013-04-08 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/08/2013 03:17 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Looks like odd-numbered years are not good for DocBook at GSoC. > > Our application for this year's GSoC program was rejected. That's sad news indeed. Please don't read to much into that decision though (such as how our "ideas" page could have been

Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

2013-04-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/06/2013 09:03 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 5.4.2013 22:40, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > >> Having this solution, would you still be interested in a more integrated >> solution that follows the conventions of the DocBook XSL stylesheets and >> allows tuning with parameters and easy customization? Ar

Re: [docbook-apps] Specify FO output font size in xml element?

2013-04-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/05/2013 08:57 PM, Eric Nordlund wrote: > Thanks Richard. I have used the attribute sets for the entire document, but > some of my examples are too long to fit on the page and I want to shrink the > font size for only that instance so I can fit it without compromising the > rest of the verb

Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

2013-04-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 04/05/2013 10:38 AM, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > Em 05-04-2013 15:26, Stefan Seefeld escreveu: >>> There are two projects, db2latex and dblatex, which provide such >>> >functionality but they do not integrate well with the existing >>> >stylesheets and dbla

Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

2013-04-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Gabor, On 04/05/2013 09:09 AM, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to apply to this year's Summer of Code and I wanted to share my > idea with you for discussion. That's great to hear. I very much share your concern for the lack of tools to transform DB to printable media, and therefore su

Re: [docbook-apps] Company logo in title page (non-standard, I already RTFM)

2013-04-04 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Eric, On 04/04/2013 01:43 PM, Eric Nordlund wrote: > So, here is my question: can I use a template to add a static > to the element before the title page xslt happens? I added a small > template to my customization layer that sort of works (it adds the > , but then FOP crashes when it trie

Re: [docbook-apps] [HELP] How can I get rid of the output of the tag in the EPUB output

2013-03-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 03/26/2013 12:48 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > can anyone reply to my post with an answer? I have waited a long time enough > after wasting a lot of time waiting for an answer on #docbook on Freenode. Shlomi, someone already pointed out to you on IRC that you were pretty rude there. No

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to PDF via FOP question which related to ANT

2013-02-20 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 02/20/2013 11:30 AM, Lars Vogel wrote: > Hi, > > not sure if this is the right distribution list. It seems the question is about ant, not docbook, so you may look for an ant-related forum (or apache fop, if this is about fop's behaviour) to ask such questions. Stefan -- ...ich hab

Re: [docbook-apps] About FOP 1.1

2013-01-08 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Jacques, I'm using fop 1.1 with my own documents successfully. However, I have never used fop to handle the first DB->FO transformation. Instead, I'm using xsltproc to generate the FO, then fop to translate that to PDF. This might work for you, too, i.e. allow you to debug the problem with missing

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-10 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 12/10/2012 10:21 AM, Kerry, Richard wrote: > >> 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'

[docbook-apps] customizing index generation

2012-12-09 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm writing an API reference manual for a library, whose symbols all start with a common prefix. Having added one indexterm per symbol, the generated index now contains a list with a single letter - the first letter of the shared prefix. So, having "foo_something" and "foo_other" would now

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-07 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 12/07/2012 10:14 AM, Kerry, Richard wrote: > > > > Peter, > > > > So yours is a workflow where the XML writers don't produce final > outputs themselves. Indeed many/most of them can't do so as they > don't have the publishing tools. > > > > Is this the common way DocBook authoring and pub

Re: [docbook-apps] n00b

2012-12-04 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 12/04/2012 03:29 PM, Marja van Waes wrote: > > Someone advised me to subscribe to this mailing list, to get the > answers to my questions. That was good advise. However, merely subscribing isn't enough - you also need to ask the questions. :-) Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koff

Re: [docbook-apps] semantics of "replaceable" element.

2012-11-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 11/06/2012 01:54 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: >> According to http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/parameter.html parameter is >> allowed inside function. > > More research shows that parameter is allowed in function DocBook 4, > but not DocBook 5. In DocBook 4, function could contain all kinds of > elemen

Re: [docbook-apps] How to style db 4.2 html output made with dsssl

2012-11-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 11/06/2012 11:27 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to improve a table of PostgreSQL error codes > in the PostgreSQL docs. > Postgresql uses Docbook 4.2 and openjade/dsssl style sheets. Is there even a remote chance for you to migrate to XSL stylesheets ? I'm not sure the DSSL ones a

Re: [docbook-apps] semantics of "replaceable" element.

2012-11-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 11/05/2012 08:37 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > I just looked at the stylesheets, and they include a parameter called > function.parens, which when set will take input of the following type: > > fooxy > and render it as: foo(x, y). I see. But isn't that the wrong markup for this desired output

Re: [docbook-apps] semantics of "replaceable" element.

2012-11-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 11/05/2012 08:13 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: > I checked the archives, and apparently these templates that add a > comma in the context of the function element were added very early in > the XSL development, back in 2001. Given the variety of elements that > function can contain, including indexterm

Re: [docbook-apps] semantics of "replaceable" element.

2012-11-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 11/05/2012 06:50 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > I suspect the problem is in your customization. I just tried this with 1.77.1 > (PDF and HTML), and there were no commas inserted in the output. Hi Richard, thanks for following up so quickly. I don't yet use a customization for th

[docbook-apps] semantics of "replaceable" element.

2012-11-05 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm writing an API documentation for "generic" C code, where certain tokens in a given (function) name are to be substituted to map the name to a real function name. For example, I'm using compute_t to stand for a set of functions "compute_f", "compute_d", "compute_i", etc. It even happens

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook qandaset

2012-08-03 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-08-03 07:48, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I am not looking for something like: > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HideAnswers.html I want to be able > to display the question on the videoproject, leave 5 min to think, > then display the answer. I really mean 'hide' temporarily, not remove.

[docbook-apps] Re: DocBook XSL: integration of the new Slides stylesheets

2012-08-01 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Gabor, could you please quickly summarize what the extension image attributes are, and what your extension.process.image.attributes template (in the Slides customization layer) does ? Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... -

Re: [docbook-apps] Small!! Lightweight!! xslt processor which is standalone!! and runs Docbook/XSL stylesheets?

2012-07-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-07-30 09:12, Dan Shelton wrote: > Does anyone know a small, lightweight xslt processor (doesn't need to > be fast) written in ANSI/ISO C which can handle the Docbook/XSL > stylesheets but does not depend on a quintillion of shared libraries? > We want to use the Docbook/XSL stylesheets in o

Re: [docbook-apps] Mapping OMG / ISO specification files to DocBook

2012-07-29 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 07/27/2012 04:35 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > Short of schema customization, the @role attribute in DocBook is the > preferred mechanism to refine the semantics of an existing element > into another "element". In a situation similar to yours, I used > preface with role="frontmatter" as

Re: [docbook-apps] embedding fonts in generated pdf

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-07-16 14:49, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > >> Still, I seem to be missing some missing link. For example: Who or what >> caused the generated pdf to reference Type 1 fonts, and what would it >> take to switch to TrueType ? > Well, let me give you a short explanation. You start with the idea tha

Re: [docbook-apps] embedding fonts in generated pdf

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-07-16 13:28, Bob Stayton wrote: > I second the suggestion of using fonts other than the "standard" fonts > for embedding in PDFs. The Type 1 fonts you list are not embeddable > unless you purchase the font outlines from Adobe and install them on > your system. The font outlines (the code t

Re: [docbook-apps] embedding fonts in generated pdf

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2012-07-16 11:08, Ron Catterall wrote: > Is this any use on creating the font metrics - from the MML2SVG > documentation./ > > These font metrics files are created with ttfreader tool that > comes with FOP. Ron, thanks for the suggestion. I'm pretty illiterate as far as fonts and font managem

[docbook-apps] embedding fonts in generated pdf

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, this is not strictly a DocBook question, but I hope that the question is common enough in this community that someone may actually be able to help. For an IEEE paper submission I need to embed the used fonts into the pdf. I'm using fop, and `pdffonts paper.pdf` reports name

Re: [docbook-apps] parameter to control pdf bookmark generation

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, On 2012-07-16 02:00, Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > There is currently no param to turn off bookmarks, but a simple > template customization will do it. Add this to your customization layer: > > > > That will only turn off the bookmarks, while leaving any other fop1 > extensions in ef

[docbook-apps] parameter to control pdf bookmark generation

2012-07-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm looking for an xsl parameter that allows me to suppress pdf bookmark generation. Looking at the code, I see that bookmark generation is conditional on the value of "fop1.extensions", which seems at least a little unintuitive. While I could set that parameter to '0', it isn't clear what

Re: [docbook-apps] Fwd: RE: [xep-support] ANNOUNCEMENT - RenderX moves to the Cloud

2012-06-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 06/25/2012 11:12 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 24.6.2012 19:54, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > >> OK, thanks for the info. I'm happy to adjust the build rules to get this >> working. So far I couldn't find any instructions on how this is done, >> though. Do I need t

Re: [docbook-apps] Fwd: RE: [xep-support] ANNOUNCEMENT - RenderX moves to the...

2012-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 06/24/2012 03:59 PM, deannel...@aol.com wrote: > Stefan, > FYI, I use the FOP/Jeuclid combination to satisfy my XML+MML to > PDF needs. That way I can use MML directly or xinclude the equations > as needed. Dean, thanks. I'm having great difficulties with that. As far as I'm aware, jeuclid do

Re: [docbook-apps] Fwd: RE: [xep-support] ANNOUNCEMENT - RenderX moves to the Cloud

2012-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 06/24/2012 01:13 PM, Ron Catterall wrote: > Hi Stefan > > At present XEP does not do MML. (Antenna House will support it - but > costly) > I have the Mathflow for Oxygen from dessci.com and put MML code > directly into Docbook source. Thjis all works transparently and > yields reasonable (acce

[docbook-apps] fo processor features

2012-06-21 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello all, I'm working with the Object Management Group (http://omg.org/) to establish the feasibility to support DocBook as a source format for OMG / ISO specifications. It appears DocBook itself is very well suited to write specifications, however the quality of available FO processors is still

Re: [docbook-apps] Symbol for indicating that the line actually continues

2012-06-08 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 06/08/2012 02:58 PM, Lars Vogel wrote: > Hello, > > As the program code in my Books is sometimes to long, I have to break > the line into two. I do this manually and its working fine. > > I would like to use a special sign to indicate that the line > continues. I have seen printed documents whe

[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Re: [docbook-apps] toc customization question

2012-06-01 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks for the quick follow-up. I don't know why I had overlooked this so far, as it seems to be (almost) exactly what I'm looking for. I guess I can get the specific behaviour I need by using the ubiquitous "role" attribute and then add specialized templates for that. Thanks, Ste

Re: [docbook-apps] toc customization question

2012-06-01 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 06/01/2012 09:18 AM, Tim Arnold wrote: > Hi Dick, > Thanks, I have been reading that section, but it's not that I want to > control the toc on every section, just one section that has a > particular attribute. My question wasn't clear that I do want section > tocs, just not for this particular s

Re: [docbook-apps] generating pdf from DocBook slides

2012-05-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/30/2012 02:32 PM, honyk wrote: > Hi Justus, > >>> I've tried to utilize Slides DTD for our training courses but quicky >>> find the element suite too small and hence limiting me. > >> Did you use "slides" or "slides-full"? The latter contains essentially >> all of DocBook. > to be honest,

Re: [docbook-apps] generating pdf from DocBook slides

2012-05-28 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello Jan, thanks a lot for your feedback. That is very valuable. I hope that we can consider that (as well as other comments about the slides vocabulary and stylesheets that were sent to this list) as we work on DB 5 Slides over the next couple of months. I have just worked on some xsl-fo styles

Re: [docbook-apps] generating pdf from DocBook slides

2012-05-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/26/2012 03:20 AM, justus-b...@piater.name wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Why not use HTML for presentations? Only HTML isn't enough. I need to distribute the slides to people who didn't attend, and there pdf is more convenient. > I used to provide PDF slides to my students, but have stopped doing

Re: [docbook-apps] generating pdf from DocBook slides

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/25/2012 05:56 PM, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > On 2012.05.25. 22:58, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >> I'm trying out the generation of pdf (via fo stylesheets) from DocBook >> Slides. >> >> The repository contains fo stylesheets specifically for slides, but I >> c

[docbook-apps] generating pdf from DocBook slides

2012-05-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying out the generation of pdf (via fo stylesheets) from DocBook Slides. The repository contains fo stylesheets specifically for slides, but I can't find any documentation for how to customize them. Has anyone ever used them to produce pdf from DB Slides ? Thanks, Stefan --

Re: [docbook-apps] two-column layout for article abstract

2012-05-19 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I entirely understand the logic, but here is what I figured out would help, so please let me know if my logic is approximately correct: With the default stylesheets, the "abstract" element is dealt with as part of the titlepage. In the case of Richard's

[docbook-apps] two-column layout for article abstract

2012-05-19 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying to customize the fo stylesheets to produce a IEEE-compliant paper. The template that I'm looking at prints the abstract within the first column. It seems that the DB stylesheets aren't prepared to have the abstract be part of the two-column layout, as there doesn't appear to be a

Re: [docbook-apps] bibliography without title

2012-05-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/15/2012 05:02 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > On 05/15/2012 12:30 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: >> Hi Stefan, >> I'm not able to duplicate this problem with the stock stylesheets. >> When I include a bibliography with title between the last >> closing tag and the clo

Re: [docbook-apps] bibliography without title

2012-05-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/15/2012 12:30 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > I'm not able to duplicate this problem with the stock stylesheets. > When I include a bibliography with title between the last > closing tag and the closing tag, the title appears with the > bibliography in the output, and in the table of

Re: [docbook-apps] keywordset not displayed in article

2012-05-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks for the info. I didn't express myself clearly. I didn't mean the header, but the space right on top of the abstract. At least that's where IEEE papers display keywords. Do I need to generate a custom titlepage for this ? Thanks again, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch ei

[docbook-apps] bibliography without title

2012-05-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello again, what is the appropriate way to include a bibliography in an article ? I have added it after the last , and given it a title "References", but the title isn't printed in the fo output. Am I doing something wrong ? Should I embed the bibliography in a section instead ? Thanks,

[docbook-apps] keywordset not displayed in article

2012-05-15 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I would like to include a keywordset in an article, but it appears it is being ignored by the fo stylesheets, and thus no keywords appear in the pdf header. Are there any parameters I need to set, or even titlepage templates to create ? Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich h

Re: [docbook-apps] page-wide figures in a two-column layout

2012-05-12 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 05/12/2012 01:01 AM, redlettucemail wrote: > You might need to also float the formal objects using a float value of > "before". That should put the tables and figures onto a following page > and span columns. Thanks for the suggestion. However, DB 5 doesn't appear to have such an attribute.

[docbook-apps] page-wide figures in a two-column layout

2012-05-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying to format an article with a two-column layout, with figures (and tables) embedded that should span both columns. I'm setting the 'pgwide' attribute to '1' on the respective elements, but the generated pdf looks wrong: the figure starts in the second (right) column, and then exten

[docbook-apps] Re: Re : [docbook-apps] Slides fo to PDF ...

2011-08-31 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/31/2011 10:37 AM, Bruno GUEGAN wrote: > Stefan, > > Thank you very much, that was the problem! > > Now everything works. > > > But I wonder what is the "slides" directory in the "docbook-xsl-ns-1.76.1" > package ? I suspect the entire 'docbook-xsl' set of files was converted to be namesp

Re: [docbook-apps] suppressing header (rule and text)

2011-08-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks for your explanation. I just realized I mis-identified the case that I want to customize. Instead of wanting to customize pages that start with a new section, I want to customize pages that start with a new chapter. And since those are already identifiable by "test="$sequence" = fi

Re: [docbook-apps] Slides fo to PDF ...

2011-08-29 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Bruno, DocBook XSL stylesheets are these days distributed in two forms: "docbook-xsl" and "docbook-xsl-ns". Each set contains stylesheets for different output formats (html, fo, etc.), and also includes support for slides. However, I believe the slides-related stylesheets in "docbook-xsl-ns" are n

Re: [docbook-apps] Slides fo to PDF ...

2011-08-28 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/28/2011 05:49 AM, Bruno GUEGAN wrote: > Can you tell me where is the problem? thank you I suspect the problem is caused by you using namespace-aware stylesheets but a slides version that doesn't use namespaces yet. Since there isn't yet a version of the slides grammar that's based on DB 5 (

[docbook-apps] suppressing header (rule and text)

2011-08-27 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, is it possible to suppress page headers (both, rule as well as text) if the page starts with a new section ? I have looked at the 'head.sep.rule' template, but couldn't figure out a way to determine whether the page starts with a section title. Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich ha

Re: [docbook-apps] footnote in title

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 01:19 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Stefan, > It worked for me. Are you sure you are using division.title? Add an > xsl:message to your customized teimplate to confirm that it is being > used. Yup, I did that, and it is indeed being called. I'm not sure why it doesn't work (I'm using

Re: [docbook-apps] footnote in title

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks a lot for a detailed explanation. I appreciate that. I had actually already figured out that I may get the desired effect by replacing a call to by a call to , though I didn't understand what that did in detail. I have just tried out your suggested patch, which didn't seem to mak

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: footnote in title

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 07:01 AM, Norman Walsh wrote: > Stefan Seefeld writes: >> My book title contains a footnote, which is ignored in the recto >> titlepage, but not the verso. > > A book title with a footnote. Wow. Yeah. To my defense: I didn't author it. It's a speci

[docbook-apps] footnote in title

2011-08-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying to customize a titlepage for FO / PDF, and have run into an issue: My book title contains a footnote, which is ignored in the recto titlepage, but not the verso. I'd like to only generate a recto titlepage, and thus need to modify the recto template to render the footnote the sa

[docbook-apps] Use of revision

2011-08-17 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, Here is another question that I ran across in my process of converting an API specification from LaTeX to DocBook: The specification has a version / revision number, and also tracks changes. It seems natural to use the "revision" / "revhistory" for those two. However, there are some (minor

[docbook-apps] listing the TOC after the preface / foreword

2011-08-17 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm in the process of converting a LaTeX document (a specification) to DocBook. The original had the auto-generated TOC following the preface, just before the first chapter. I wonder what the best way is to reproduce that with xsl-docbook. It seems by default the TOC precedes the preface,

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook IEEE transformation?

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 2011-05-10 13:51, Richard Hamilton wrote: David, I just created a page called DocBookCustomizations at wiki.docbook.org (about halfway down the page) and added my two-column customization. Right now the links are back to my blog, but once I figure out how/whether I can upload the file, I'

[docbook-apps] customizing section titles

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'd like to customize the section title formatting for HTML and PDF. I think I have found a good solution for HTML, where I customize the 'section.heading' template to generate the desired content. However, trying to do the same with the FO stylesheets doesn't work: I use a "titleabbr

Re: [docbook-apps] RE: problem with position()

2011-05-07 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi Bob, thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense. And thanks for the addition to Rob's patch. With that, everything works fine. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... - To unsubscr

Re: [docbook-apps] RE: problem with position()

2011-05-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Rob, thanks for the quick reply. I tried your suggestion but observed the exact same behavior. And indeed, I don't understand how the two could differ. After all both operate on the same context, don't they ? Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... -

[docbook-apps] problem with position()

2011-05-06 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hello, I'm trying to define a template to generate a particular xref label for DB->XHTML translation. I'm using this simple template: [select="ancestor::d:section/d:titleabbrev"/>]/select="position()"/> However, this always results in a label of the form "[...]/1", i.e. the repo

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