Re: [docbook-apps] itemized list, and import precedence

2011-08-09 Thread Vincent Hennebert
On 09/08/11 11:33, Jirka Kosek wrote: On 7.8.2011 18:50, Bob Stayton wrote: This isn't a case of import precedence, but of different attributes. In general, the qualified attributes (like space-before.optimum) take precedence over the non-qualified attributes (like space-before). I wish

Re: [docbook-apps] dbfo-need height and FOP - does it actually work?

2011-08-09 Thread Vincent Hennebert
On 09/08/11 07:58, Gjertrud wrote: Hi! I can't get the ?dbfo-need height=1in? to work. Not if I change to the metric system either. I found that this issue has been raised earlier: http://old.nabble.com/dbfo-need-height-and-FOP-tt27421275.html I am using DocBook XSL 1.75.2 and FOP

Re: [docbook-apps] Break long programlisting lines without spaces?

2011-04-14 Thread Vincent Hennebert
On 14/04/11 09:06, Jirka Kosek wrote: David Cramer wrote: I've done a little research on this and found on the fop list some discussion (pasted below). The fop developers feel that using the hyphenation character to achieve this is an abuse of the hypenation-character property. I don't

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: dbfo-need height and FOP

2010-08-25 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Antti, Antti Karanta wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:13:47 +0200, Antti Karanta antti.kara...@napa.fi wrote: When I test dbfo-need with fop.0.95 and 1.75.2, I found that it does work in some locations but not others. In the case of placing a dbfo-need between block elements like para,

Re: [docbook-apps] Apostrophe in docbook document

2010-01-26 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Ron Catterall wrote: Could somebody tell me which is the correct symbol to use for apostrophe. The HTML special characters entity set has apos #x27 where apos presumably stands for apostrophe - this is the straight up single quote mark which XML defines and uses for special purposes.

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Hypenation in narrow columns (fo stylesheet)

2009-12-16 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Jens, What do you mean by “do not hyphenate properly”? If FOP doesn’t hyphenate at all, this probably is because it is missing hyphenation patterns. Look here for how to install them: http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/index.html Otherwise, could you please attach your FO file and

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Hypenation in narrow columns (fo stylesheet)

2009-12-16 Thread Vincent Hennebert
, which will work with all versions of FOP fop -xml narow-column.xml -xsl /path-to-docbook-1.75.2/fo/docbook.xslexample.pdf I have enclosed the FO file for your convenience. Regards Jens Vincent On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Vincent Hennebert vhenneb...@gmail.com

Re: [docbook-apps] Footnotes in Lists don't work

2009-11-19 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, If that's an acceptable option for you, you can use the Trunk version of FOP in which that bug has been fixed. You can download a snapshot of the source code here: http://svn-master.apache.org/snapshots/fop/ And see here for help about building FOP:

Re: [docbook-apps] Image overflows

2009-11-13 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Tobias, Tobias Anstett [k15t.com] wrote: Hi, Recently I had a problem with image overflows using Apache as well as XEP. I use both very wide and very high images in my documentation. When applying my customization layers they are always scaled to match the width of the page but I have

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Table cell text overlapes with table border ...docbook 1.74.3

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Since it’s not a regular word it can’t be hyphenated; you must specify yourself the places where it is allowed to break. If you want a hyphen to be visible when the text is broken you can use the soft hyphen character (U+00AD). Otherwise you can use a zero-width space (U+200B). HTH, Vincent

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Table cell text overlapes with table border ...docbook 1.74.3

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Hennebert
that process, inserting those characters by hand is obviously tedious. HTH, Vincent Thanks, BRAMANI. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Vincent Hennebert vhenneb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since it’s not a regular word it can’t be hyphenated; you must specify yourself the places where

Re: [docbook-apps] Page shrinking or scaling

2009-10-23 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Dean Nelson wrote: Hi y'all, Is there a way to shrink the page size in Docbook without having to reformat the doc going to PDF (FOP). My users would like to have a half size manual to travel with instead of a regular US Letter size page. I guess I could to this at the printers,

Re: [docbook-apps] indents the whole paragraph

2009-02-10 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Lily, Lily Galle wrote: Hi, If I want to indent one whole paragraph (not only the first line of the paragraph), what should I do? The “text-indent” only indents the first line of one paragraph. This is not what I want. Simply use the margin-left property. Thanks for any help!

Re: [docbook-apps] Greek Symbol problems with fop 0.95

2009-02-09 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Bob Stayton wrote: I believe this is a FOP limitation,including 0.95, supposedly fixed in the trunk version[1]. Yes, that’s right. However... Is anyone using the trunk version of FOP that can test this problem? [1]

Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks

2008-11-13 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Bob, Bob Stayton wrote: Hi, This is very interesting. I did not know that keep-together is not a property that acts on fo:table-cell, but that is indeed what the spec says. My experience has been that in both XEP and Antenna House, putting that property on fo:table-cell will keep the

Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks

2008-11-12 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Bob Stayton wrote: OK, I checked this out, and it seems that FOP 0.95 knows how to keep an ordinary table cell together, but it does not know how to keep a cell together if it spans down to additional rows. That should probably be reported as a bug on FOP, because it should work for

Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks

2008-11-07 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Marcel Tromp wrote: Hi, I am using fop 0.95. I am using code similar to this example: I've tried using this dbfo at different location as well (row, start of table) and I don't see any difference: fop breaks the table in the middle of a cell that straddles multiple rows. tbody

Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks

2008-11-06 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Marcel, Marcel Tromp wrote: Hi, I have a long table in which certain columns contain a large vertical span (using morerows attribute). When printing to pdf with fop, fop page breaks this large vertical cell at an arbitrary place. I have been trying to control this using the

Re: [docbook-apps] Quality of encoded charts . . .

2008-10-07 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, My experience with LaTeX is getting old, so I may have missed the latest news. Anyway... Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ Say you have a body of texts about engineering or Sciences including lots of drawings (colours are not important) with basically lines, planes, ... how well can you encode

Re: [docbook-apps] Text running into the footer in PDF

2008-08-19 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Dennison, Cheri a écrit : Hi! I'm upgrading to FOP 0.95 from 0.20.5 and from 1.70.1 to 1.74 for the DB stylesheets, and with the upgrade I have a particular long orderedlist (with another level of nested orderedlists inside) that no longer breaks correctly at the bottom of the page.

Re: [docbook-apps] Incorrect table row handling at page break

2008-07-01 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Nancy, Nancy Brandt wrote: Hi guys, I've got the following problem: (using XSLTPROC and FOP 0.94) When one of the cells in the last table row on a page is too large (because of a long sentence for example), this cell moves to the next page, while other row cells stay on the

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to pdf warnings

2008-06-18 Thread Vincent Hennebert
on this subject will be very welcomed. As a worst case scenario i'm looking for a way to disable this warning, but i prefer fix the problem even there is no visual problem on the pdf output. HTH, Vincent -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org

Re: [docbook-apps] span=inherit on fo:block when generating an index.

2008-05-23 Thread Vincent Hennebert
. Thanks! Vincent -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer FOP Development/Consulting

Re: [docbook-apps] draft.watermark.image and catalog.xml

2008-05-13 Thread Vincent Hennebert
://www.nabble.com/draft.watermark.image-and-catalog.xml-tp17166155p17166155.html Sent from the docbook apps mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Including external documents

2008-04-21 Thread Vincent Hennebert
a small chance it will be fixed in the next couple of months. split/ Vincent -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer FOP Development/Consulting

Re: [docbook-apps] Table of Contents starts on page 4 / page breaks between lists of figures, examples, tables

2008-04-17 Thread Vincent Hennebert
has been fixed and the workaround should no longer be necessary, starting from version 0.95beta of FOP. Vincent -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer

Re: [docbook-apps] Rendering PNG Images Using Various FO Tools

2008-04-17 Thread Vincent Hennebert
and pngcheck. There are differences, but when I try to use convert to fix them it doesn't seem to help. Harry Since I've had so many responses to this, I thought I'd add a tarball with what I'm trying to do. Harry -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http

[docbook-apps] [ANN] Apache FOP 0.95beta Released

2008-03-26 Thread Vincent Hennebert
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Re: [docbook-apps] FO processor support

2008-03-17 Thread Vincent Hennebert
ask. I hope this helps, Vincent -- Vincent HennebertAnyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~vhennebert http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache FOP Committer FOP Development/Consulting admon.xsl l.50: FOP now supports the url

Re: [docbook-apps] org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: Font configuration without metric-url

2008-02-18 Thread Vincent Hennebert
checked each of the font locations and they are proven to be true to the location specified in the xconf file. The fonts registered are the same fonts which have been used to process the documents in version fop-0.20.5. Any help would be appreciated. Andrew -- Vincent Hennebert

Re: [docbook-apps] FOP on Mac OS X--missing hyphenation file for language en

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent Hennebert
patterns from another website and put the fop-hyph.jar file you get in the build/ directory of your FOP installation. This separate process is necessary because of licensing issues (hyphenation patterns may not be distributed with FOP). HTH, Vincent -- Vincent Hennebert

Re: [docbook-apps] invisible footnote (in note) in qandaset when using FOP to generate a .pdf

2007-10-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Paul, Paul Stubbe wrote: I do not know if the following issue is a docbook or a FOP issue. But as a happy Docbook user, I start my search for a solution on this list. The footnote content is lost (?) during the fo to pdf processing whenever I put a footnote in a qandaset. Is this

Re: [docbook-apps] Menuchoices in lists, using FOP

2007-10-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Chris, Chris Ridd wrote: Hi, I'm using Docbook and the related XSL stylesheets pretty successfully except for one odd problem. I have a number of procedures containing steps, and if a para inside a step contains a menuchoice, and my stylesheet sets: xsl:param

Re: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.94 and Japanese Wordwrapping

2007-10-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Akagi K wrote: Hi DocBook gurus, In June this year my colleague built FOP 0.94 from the binary that was available then. You probably mean he built a binary from a checkout of the Trunk. Wordwrapping in Japanese which was a problem with FOP0.93 was resolved with that. I see now that

Re: [docbook-apps] Customizing header alignment with image

2007-10-18 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Sorry for the delay... Mauritz Jeanson wrote: -Original Message- From: spr This didn;t work either: xsl:attribute-set name= header.table.properties xsl:attribute name = table-layoutfixed/xsl:attribute xsl:attribute name =

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Generating font metricss file for Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica and Times-Roman?

2007-09-21 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, You appear to be on a Linux box. Install the gsfonts package (“Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)”). You will get clones of the 35 well-known Postscript fonts, among which the base 14 PDF fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier...). Go to the directory where these fonts are installed

[docbook-apps] [ANN] Apache FOP 0.94 Released

2007-08-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
the compliance page for a detailed overview: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html For the XML Graphics team, Vincent Hennebert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [docbook-apps] Font Problems When Upgrading to FOP 0.93 [was: Using FOP .93 with DocBook 4]

2007-08-18 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Cheri, Dennison, Cheri a écrit : Naresh-- Did you run into any troubles getting fonts to work with 0.93? We're in the process of trying to upgrade and bumped into a font problem there. We haven't dug into yet, but just curious if you ran into anything. If you’re upgrading from the 0.20.5

Re: [Fwd: Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF]

2007-07-12 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Vincent Hennebert a écrit : Hi, There seems to be a bug in FOP which apparently doesn't handle nested lists too well. I'm investigating. Confirmed. There's an ugly bug related to elastic spaces, I prefer to not enter the details ;-) A workaround is to use fixed spaces (minimum = optimum

Re: [docbook-apps] Neeed FOP 0.9X examples

2007-07-10 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, Euis Luhuanam a écrit : Hi, I would like to migrate from fop 0.20 to 0.9X. Unfortunately, it seems not to be straight forward. I am using Ubuntu Feisty with a 2.6.20-16-generic kernel; Java2RE 1.5.0_11; xsltproc (libxml 20627, libxslt 10120; libexslt 813); and docbook-xsl-1.71.1.

Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent Hennebert
[Keep forgetting that reply-to: isn't set to docbook-apps...] Hi Joseph, caporale a écrit : I'm using FOP 0.93, xsltproc, and DocBook 4.5. Sometimes text appears to almost overlap DocBook's footer line. I've noticed the problem more when I'm doing lists and especially lists within lists.

[Fwd: Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF]

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Message original Sujet: Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:39:00 + De: Bob Saggot Pour: Vincent Hennebert Vincent, See the bottom of pages 2 and 3. Thanks for taking a look at this. Joseph From: Vincent Hennebert To: caporale

Re: [Fwd: Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF]

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, There seems to be a bug in FOP which apparently doesn't handle nested lists too well. I'm investigating. Vincent Message original Sujet: Re: [docbook-apps] Text going out of margins in PDF Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:39:00 + De: Bob Saggot Pour: Vincent Hennebert

Re: [docbook-apps] Japanese Docbook/XML to PDF conversion trouble

2007-03-27 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi François, Francois Gouget a écrit : Hi, I'm having trouble converting Japanese Docbook/XML documents to PDF. I have attached a very simple test document as an example (you can also download it from http://fgouget.free.fr/tmp/docbook/foo.xml in case it gets mangled in the mail). I

Re: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.93: Cannot load fonts/NullPointerException

2007-03-12 Thread Vincent Hennebert
[Re-sending to the list...] Jeff Powanda a écrit : Yes, I've tried using absolute URLs for both the font-base element and the metrics-url attribute on the font element. Both still result in the null pointer exception when I run FOP. Relative URLs should work, both for base and font-base. Are

Re: [docbook-apps] ulink-generated footnotes in Glossary

2007-02-27 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Bob Stayton a écrit : This seems to be a bug in FOP 0.93 regarding fo:footnotes inside a fo:list-block. If you set the stylesheet parameter glossary.as.blocks=1 then the footnote comes out ok. But it isn't as nice looking. I think you could report this as a bug to the FOP developers.