About DTDs, Mathematic expressions, PDF and HMTL
Hello all, I've just started with Cocoon and with XML. I'am really surprised with the power of XML. In the past I have written text documents in LaTeX that include some simple math expressions and some images. Then I usually converted them to PDF with pdflatex and to html with latex2html. Now I want to do all of this in XML. I also followed one tutorial about converting XML to PDF and HTML, with cocoon... so I am already there. Now I need to find some DTD (maybe DocBook, I don't know if it will suite my needs) and some XSL's that support the math expressions and some jpg's or gif's... ... one thing also: I would like to produce somewhat atractive documents... may be some simple colors or some fancy design (like the cocoon site, for example) automatically (without my interference) Can anyone show me the way to start, or send me some working examples. Thank you (sorry about the big text...) João Ferreira - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About DTDs, Mathematic expressions, PDF and HMTL
João Welcome to the Cocoon Universe... all your wishes will soon be granted (after you add in some hard work, of course ;-) I am not sure about the Math part - perhaps the combination of SVG and the appropriate Unicode selection will help towards the creation of math expressions... there is also MathML that has many projects clustered around it: http://www.w3.org/Math/ http://www.w3.org/Math/implementations.html For documentation production, you can obviously roll your own stylesheets (CSS and XSL)... otherwise take a look at the Forrest project: http://forrest.apache.org/ which allows you to develop your own skins for a project. I have used DocBook with Cocoon; though with hindsight I suspect it was overkill for the project concerned. Simplified DocBook may be easier to digest (all depends how much you expect your users to do) but if Forrest works for you, that may be all you need. Lots of luck! Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004/09/28 08:28:46 PM Hello all, I've just started with Cocoon and with XML. I'am really surprised with the power of XML. In the past I have written text documents in LaTeX that include some simple math expressions and some images. Then I usually converted them to PDF with pdflatex and to html with latex2html. Now I want to do all of this in XML. I also followed one tutorial about converting XML to PDF and HTML, with cocoon... so I am already there. Now I need to find some DTD (maybe DocBook, I don't know if it will suite my needs) and some XSL's that support the math expressions and some jpg's or gif's... ... one thing also: I would like to produce somewhat atractive documents... may be some simple colors or some fancy design (like the cocoon site, for example) automatically (without my interference) Can anyone show me the way to start, or send me some working examples. Thank you (sorry about the big text...) João Ferreira - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About DTDs, Mathematic expressions, PDF and HMTL
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:28:46 -0400, Joao Miguel Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started with Cocoon and with XML. I'am really surprised with the power of XML. In the past I have written text documents in LaTeX that include some simple math expressions and some images. Then I usually converted them to PDF with pdflatex and to html with latex2html. Now I want to do all of this in XML. I also followed one tutorial about converting XML to PDF and HTML, with cocoon... so I am already there. Now I need to find some DTD (maybe DocBook, I don't know if it will suite my needs) and some XSL's that support the math expressions and some jpg's or gif's... ... one thing also: I would like to produce somewhat atractive documents... may be some simple colors or some fancy design (like the cocoon site, for example) automatically (without my interference) Can anyone show me the way to start, or send me some working examples. You might want to throw a look at TBook: http://tbookdtd.sf.net/ I stumbled across it quite a while ago. It looks quite interesting, but I still haven't found time for further investigations. HTH, Gerald -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
