Re: [docbook-apps] Preserving entities and language translation

2016-01-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Fekete, Róbert wrote: where we need to translate docbook content, we use separate branches or subdirectories for the different language versions, and our build system takes care of finding the right content. How do you deal with literal content that should be identical

Re: [docbook-apps] Preserving entities and language translation

2016-01-19 Thread Warren Block
be fine. Those could be changed to non-entities by postprocessing the output file before the PO information is extracted. On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 21:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: Some of the articles in the FreeBSD documentation use entities to include large blocks of data. For example, one

Re: [docbook-apps] Preserving entities and language translation

2016-01-19 Thread Warren Block
file with xmllint restore backups I hope that helps. It does, yes. Thank you! PS: I added my FreeBSD.org address to Cc. Apologies if my other address bounced anyone's mail. On Jan 18, 2016, at 20:42, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: Some of the articles in the F

[docbook-apps] Preserving entities and language translation

2016-01-18 Thread Warren Block
Some of the articles in the FreeBSD documentation use entities to include large blocks of data. For example, one article is just a very large list of PGP keys for developers: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pgpkeys/index.html The DocBook article.xml is only 2K, because

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

2015-09-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, maxwell wrote: On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older versions did not have all the features we needed for PDFs. Table of contents and some other things, as I recall. We now have a port of the latest

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

2015-09-16 Thread Warren Block
list for this. That was it! Added the FreeBSD ports print/tex-xetex and print/tex-dvipdfmx, and it renders with the new dblatex. Now it just needs some customizations. Thanks to both you and Mike Maxwell! On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:02:56 +0200, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:

[docbook-apps] Tools to make DocBook easier

2015-09-14 Thread Warren Block
What tools are there to make working with DocBook easier? I wrote a lint-like proofreading tool called "igor" that looks for common mistakes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/igor/ Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9MLREFzdR0 It occurred to me that the text "styles" settings of GUI

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

2015-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Thomas Schraitle wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:25:45 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: [...] Examples, even trivial ones, are hugely useful. Just having two or three would be useful for reference when implementing a custom look. Being able

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

2015-09-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: Tom, I've been giving this some thought, and what had become evident to me is that I have no problem at all with the Docbook language. After all, you can either learn to code it by hand, or use an editor like Oxygen. Either way, you do need to know

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

2015-09-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, maxwell wrote: On 9/13/2015 12:19 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: 2. The complexity of customizing the default look of the documents, which look OK, but don't look as good as they would need to be to be put in front of a client

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

2015-09-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2015-09-13 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: Does anybody sell a commercial Docbook customization layer? I don't know of any, but would be interested. Maybe there is a place with downloadable DocBook "themes"

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

2015-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, 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! We use it for most of the FreeBSD documentation: https://www.freebsd.org/docs

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

2015-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote: We use DocBook for all of our books and articles on FreeBSD. Please feel free to check out the docs section in my previous message. Our doc group is small but we welcome the chance to share and learn from others. We have an open mailing list

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

2015-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: Katie,   While we are being frank, I have tried so many documentation options over the years that I have lost count.   The only one I liked using was IBM’s DCF, and that was 25 years ago.   Docbook comes close to DCF/Bookmaster, but it isn’t

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

2015-09-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Katie Welles wrote: It’s been a while since I’ve used Docbook or participated in this forum. I used Docbook a number of years ago to put together a web-based API reference system. To be frank, I found it to be a pretty painful project, but mainly because I thought it was

Re: [docbook-apps] PACBook announce

2015-07-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Dew, Simon wrote: Hi I'm pleased (also slightly nervous) to announce the PACBook project. This is a suite of linguistic pre-processing stylesheets for XML documentation, primarily aimed at DocBook. The project is hosted here: https://github.com/STANLEYSecurity/PACBook