Re: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.
Bob Stayton wrote: Hi Dave, I'm not sure that special feature of colgroup is supported in the stylesheets. I had not heard of it. Can you clarify what your intentions are for minimizing column widths? Does minimum mean the width of the cell's content without line breaks, or do you want to force line breaks for longer entries to reduce the column width? When it says ... this attribute allows the special form 0* (zero asterisk) which means that the width of the each column in the group should be the minimum width necessary to hold the column's contents. ... I interpret this to mean the text width without forced line breaks. No line breaks. Balanced columns means I have wasted space and I want to float the table left to fit an image into the space on the right? Minimised to 'just' fit the text does that. regards - Original Message - From: Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Docbook-Apps docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 6:09 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths. Using db 4.5 I'm trying to generate smaller widths in the columns db5 says colgroup width=0* will minimise columns. colgroup isn't getting me far with 4.5 Using $Revision: 7119 $ $Date: 2007-07-23 02:07:18 +0900 (Mon, 23 Jul 2007) How can I specify the column widths, for html output, using the html table model please. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Noob: Python DocBook to PDF
Michael Hipp wrote: Anyway, I need to display and print reports as requested by the user and also do program-driven printouts with no user intervention. And not make a career of it. Simple, right? So my constraints are: - Printouts are mostly defined outside of program code (e.g. template files) - Changing data can be inserted into the template processing stream with minimal fuss - Standards-based; some degree of future-proof; minimal dependence on single vendor - Options for various output types (i.e. PDF, web, etc.) - Mostly written by someone other than me (I've enough to do) - Without the hood welded shut - Callable from Python - Multi-platform (Win Lin) - As lightweight and resource stingy as possible - A visual report designer would be nice, but not a necessity Mostly I've come down to these options: 1. DocBooks using xsltproc and apache-fop 2. RML using Tiny rml2pdf 3. OpenRpt 4. PythonReports All of those solutions fail on one constraint or another. Numbers 3 4 would likely be last resort for various reasons. RML is appealing but isn't any kind of standard. DocBooks is a real standard but coupled with fop weighing in at 68M it doesn't seem lightweight and the complexity is intimidating. Yes. My view on your compromises needed. 1. If they want it laid out 'just so' then they will kick at docbook. Docbook has a standard layout with some configuration. 2. Your multi-media requirement should mandate an XML source (suggest for templates and source). Need to check that the 'other person' is OK generating XML. 3. Curious about the 'lightweight' issue. Is the chequeue signer ancient? Not normally something people worry about these days unless it will be running n threads on a laden server. 4. Callable from Python is doable, but don't forget Jython if you need Java. 5. Visual report designer is getting into silly space for this workflow. There are such tools, but I've no experience of them. 'Paint' the PDF you want and map the XML into it. ** Can anyone think of any? I can't see Oleg's suggestion of Latex fitting into this mix very comfortably, especially the templating side. I think you could be into some negotiating. Try and find out where their priorities are? HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of Figures
Bob Stayton wrote:
fo:bookmark internal-destination=toc...{$id}
fo:bookmark-title
xsl:call-template name=gentext
xsl:with-param name=key select='TableofContents'/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:bookmark-title
/fo:bookmark
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xsl11-20041216/#fo_bookmark
Just wondering if it is an extension or something from 1.1?
regards
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[docbook-apps] olink generated text question
Hello there, I've recently started using DocBook and the XSL stylesheets (1.73.1). To create links between single documents I'm using the olink element. Everything works fine except for the link text that is generated. Since I just want a link to the document as a whole (not to a specific element within the document), I don't specify a targetptr attribute, i.e. my olink elements look like this: olink targetdoc=OtherDoc /. However, the rendered link (both HTML and FO/PDF) has the text Document TitleSection 1Section 2Figure aTable I... (it seems all titles of the target document have been concatenated) Is this a bug or a feature? What is the simplest way to get only the document title rendered as the text of the link? (In case it matters: my documents have lang=de in the root element, the root element is article, the XSLT processor is Saxon 6.5.5) Best regards, Oliver - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] olink generated text question
Oliver Becker wrote: Hello there, I've recently started using DocBook and the XSL stylesheets (1.73.1). To create links between single documents I'm using the olink element. Everything works fine except for the link text that is generated. Since I just want a link to the document as a whole (not to a specific element within the document), You could use an id for the root element as the target? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] olink generated text question
Dave Pawson schrieb: Oliver Becker wrote: Hello there, I've recently started using DocBook and the XSL stylesheets (1.73.1). To create links between single documents I'm using the olink element. Everything works fine except for the link text that is generated. Since I just want a link to the document as a whole (not to a specific element within the document), You could use an id for the root element as the target? That works, thanks Dave! So I suppose using olink without targetptr is not really supported by the stylesheets (or it is a droll feature). Cheers, Oliver - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [docbook-apps] Styling PDF output
Bob, Thanks for point me in the right direction. The body.start.indent will do most of what I want. I would like the simplesect titles and bridgeheads to float in the gap between the margin and the start of the text. From reading your book, it looks like I need to add a template for simplesect.titlepage to the customization layer to make that happen. Is this correct? Cheers, Eric From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:52 PM To: Johnson, Eric; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Styling PDF output Hi Eric, I think the DocBook XSL stylesheets do that by default. The body.start.indent parameter indents everything, except those elements with a start-indent=0pt property. All section heads, including simplesect and bridgeheads get that property, so they are not indented along with everything else. Or perhaps I'm not understanding your requirements. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Johnson, Eric mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 6:51 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] Styling PDF output I want to style the pages in my PDF output so that the paragraph text has a left side gap. I also want simplesect tiles and bridge heads to appear in the gap. I'm not sure what I need to modify to make that happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Eric J.
Re: [docbook-apps] olink generated text question
Oliver Becker wrote: You could use an id for the root element as the target? That works, thanks Dave! So I suppose using olink without targetptr is not really supported by the stylesheets (or it is a droll feature). Sorry, don't know Oliver. But it seems to meet your need and the stylesheets... so. Anyway it works :-) Glad to see you using db! regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] ulink doesn't show as footnote when using XSL-NS Stylesheets
I figured out what was happening and attached a patch to the issue in the bugtracker. When the XSL stylesheets detect a 5.0 document (using namespace), the stripns.xsl stylesheet converts a link to a ulink if the link points to an external reference. The XSL-NS stylesheets have no such conversion so link (in fo/xref.xsl) has been patched to call the ulink template if the link points to an external reference. Although I built a patch for the xref.xsl file, I'm not sure this is helpful since I don't know how the XSL-NS Stylesheets are currently built. If they are still built by transforming the XSL stylesheets then a special transformation for link in fo/xref.xsl would need to be added. Ken On 8/31/07, Michael(tm) Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2007-08-31 07:33 -0400: Bug is checked in, https://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1785519. If I learn anything more, or determine a fix, I'll post an update. Thanks Is there anyway to add XSL-NS as a category in the bug tracker? There is a way, but I'm reluctant to do that at this point, because it will mean that when we search or run reports for open bugs for the stylesheets, we need to run the report against two categories instead of just one. For now at least, I think it's probably better to just have the XSL and XSL-NS stylesheets treated in the same category as far as SF bug tracking goes. --Mike
RE: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of Figures
That pretty much did the trick. The only thing I changed was the ID for
List of Figures, which is lot...figure...{$id} instead of
toc...figure...{$id}. Thanks once again for your help.
Regards,
Jeff Powanda
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:35 PM
To: Jeff Powanda; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of Figures
Hi Jeff,
Well, you aren't selecting the List of Figures, because it isn't an
element because it is generated. In fo/fop1.xsl, the template that
matches on book and other elements has these lines that generate the
bookmark for the TOC:
xsl:variable name=toc.params
xsl:call-template name=find.path.params
xsl:with-param name=table
select=normalize-space($generate.toc)/
/xsl:call-template
/xsl:variable
xsl:if test=contains($toc.params, 'toc')
and
(book|part|reference|preface|chapter|appendix|article
|glossary|bibliography|index|setindex
|refentry
|sect1|sect2|sect3|sect4|sect5|section)
fo:bookmark internal-destination=toc...{$id}
fo:bookmark-title
xsl:call-template name=gentext
xsl:with-param name=key select='TableofContents'/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:bookmark-title
/fo:bookmark
/xsl:if
Copy the xsl:if block and change a few things for a list of figures:
xsl:if test=contains($toc.params, 'figure')
and (//figure)
fo:bookmark internal-destination=toc...figure...{$id}
fo:bookmark-title
xsl:call-template name=gentext
xsl:with-param name=key select='ListofFigures'/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:bookmark-title
/fo:bookmark
/xsl:if
I got the $toc.params value from the $generate.toc parameter in
fo/param.xsl, and changed it to check for the existance of any figure in
the document. I got the figure list id from the list.of.titles
template in fo/autotoc.xsl. That template generates all of the List of
... lists. I got the gentext key from common/en.xml.
Hope this works. I didn't actually test it, so let me know if it does
or does not. 8^)
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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- Original Message -
From: Jeff Powanda mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bob Stayton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of
Figures
I'm using FOP 0.93, so I have to match=book and
mode=fop1.outline. However, I need help on how to select the List of
Figures and add a bookmark for it.
Regards,
Jeff Powanda
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:15 PM
To: Jeff Powanda; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of
Figures
Hi Jeff,
The PDF bookmark syntax is specific to each FO processor. What
FO processor are you using?
In general, you need to find the code that generates the
bookmark for the TOC, and do something like it. For example, for XEP,
the code is in the template with match=book and mode=xep.outline in
fo/xep.xsl.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Powanda mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:39 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List
of Figures
I'd like a bookmark for the List of Figures to appear in
the list of PDF bookmarks. Does anyone know how I can add that bookmark?
Regards,
Jeff Powanda
[docbook-apps] White space in fo question
I've been playing around with the various white space attributes trying, with no success so far, to achieve the following with fo: Given the following input text (I've replace the space character with '^' to make things clearer): para Now^is^the^time.^^Here^is^the^place.^^ There^is^the^problem.^^Way^out^there is^the^solution. para I'd like to get the following output using a monospace font (Courier): Now^is^the^time.^^Here^is the^place.^^There^is^the problem.^^Way^out^there^is the^solution. Note that the two spaces between each sentence have been preserved, the text has been wrapped, and the indentation in the source has been ignored. By setting the attribute white-space-collapse to false in the root.properties attribute set, I get everything I need, except the spaces used to indent the source aren't ignored, which gives output that looks like: Now^is^the^time.^^Here^is the^place.^^There^is^the problem.^^Way^out^there^is the^solution. I've tried various values of white-space-treatment to no avail, including ignore-if-after-linefeed, which on paper would seem to be the right choice. I've tried this with FOP 0.93 and XEP 4.4 with the same results, so I think the fop processor is irrelevant. And, I'm using saxon8 with the 1.73.1 stylesheets. Any ideas? Thanks, Dick Hamilton P.S. I know, with proportional fonts, no one puts two spaces after a sentence any more, but I'm using Courier and need that typewriter effect:). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
