[docbook-apps] Saxon linenumbering extension in programlisting

2010-12-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
the newline character, which I suspect can cause problems if you're trying to use that content elsewhere (for example, to test a function). Any thoughts? Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624

RE: [docbook-apps] re: Generating title for link element

2010-12-08 Thread Dick Hamilton
. If you do, then xlink:title is valid as an attribute of link, and the stylesheets will generate a title attribute in the html output using the contents of xlink:title. Hope that helps. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http

Re: [docbook-apps] Lists on Kindle

2010-09-24 Thread Dick Hamilton
-open.lists.docbook-apps#query:supress%20html%20list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps+page:1+mid:zsijp3vwygyf24mu+state:results ). robert On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Dick Hamilton rlhamil...@frii.com wrote: This seems to happen because the DocBook transforms generate the following

Re: [docbook-apps] Lists on Kindle

2010-09-23 Thread Dick Hamilton
...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Dick Hamilton rlhamil...@frii.com wrote: This seems to happen because the DocBook transforms generate the following html for a list item, and I suspect the p forces a break: lipThe line that /p/li That's correct. I'm about to dive

RE: [docbook-apps] Newbie question: conref for DocBook

2010-07-08 Thread Dick Hamilton
everything you need. I'd suggest you take a look at the Modular DocBook chapter in Bob Stayton's book, DocBook XSL. Here's a link to that chapter in the html version: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html Hope that helps. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML

RE: [docbook-apps] XSL-FO and CSS stylesheets

2010-07-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
could do a 100% job, but you might get close enough to make the result useful. But, I don't think anyone has tried to do that (or if they have they haven't shared it with the list:). Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http

RE: [docbook-apps] Nested Itemized Lists

2010-06-25 Thread Dick Hamilton
: http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html The print version is available through O'Reilly here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805012 Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original

RE: [docbook-apps]PDF downconversion to docBook XML

2010-06-12 Thread Dick Hamilton
and post-processing you need to do will probably depend mostly on how good your conversion from PDF to HTML is. Hope that helps. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From

[docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code communication

2010-05-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
to comment and help as appropriate. Therefore, I'd like to propose that we do that and ask the members of this list to comment or express any concerns you have about the idea. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net

[docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code Projects

2010-05-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
Sina Heshmati Stefan Seefeld DocBook5 Create Transformation of Docbook to epubAnn-Marie Horcher Dick Hamilton Reimplementation of the Jirka Kosek Norman Walsh DocBook XSL stylesheets in XSLT 2.0 Integration of BoostBook Muhammad RehanStefan Seefeld with DocBook

[docbook-apps] GSoC Mentor requests

2010-04-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
For prospective mentors: When you make a mentor request on the gsoc website, please send me an email message (hamil...@xmlpress.net) identifying who you are. The requests come to me with only the id, which often does not help me identify the person sending in the request. Because some mentor

[docbook-apps] DocBook Google Summer of Code Ideas

2010-03-26 Thread Dick Hamilton
Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands

RE: [docbook-apps] DocBook Google Summer of Code Ideas

2010-03-26 Thread Dick Hamilton
- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnus...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:38 PM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: docbook-apps; Moacir de Oliveira Miranda Júnior Subject

RE: [docbook-apps] para-section-para

2010-03-25 Thread Dick Hamilton
According to the schema, you can have a para before the first section, but once you start using sections, you cannot have a para outside of some other structure (section, etc.). I believe that is intentional and has been that way for a while. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton

[docbook-apps] RE: [docbook] Wiki problems Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
Regards, Dick - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: David Cramer [mailto:dcra...@motive.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:12 PM To: Dick Hamilton; docb...@lists.oasis-open.org Subject

RE: [docbook-apps] RFE: roundtripping to/from adobe IDML

2010-03-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
in DocBook. Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: Giuseppe Bonelli [mailto:peppo.bone...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:15 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

RE: [docbook-apps] RFE: roundtripping to/from adobe IDML

2010-03-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: honyk [mailto:j.tosov...@email.cz] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 2:52 PM To: 'Dick Hamilton'; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] RFE: roundtripping to/from adobe IDML While round

RE: [docbook-apps] Google summer of code

2010-03-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
Sounds interesting to me; feel free to add it to the ideas page. Dick - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:da...@dpawson.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:00

[docbook-apps] DocBook Google Summer of Code application

2010-03-12 Thread Dick Hamilton
I just submitted the Application for our participation in the Google Summer of Code. I don't know if the application is visible on the Google site, but you can see the complete text of the application (I cut and pasted from here) at: http://docbook.xmlpress.net/tiki-index.php?page=application.

[docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code Application Draft

2010-03-09 Thread Dick Hamilton
, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] DocBook and Google Summer of Code ?

2010-03-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
I've been involved with the Google Summer of Code, so I'm open to input from anyone concerning the process and anything else to do with this project. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] DocBook and Google Summer of Code ?

2010-03-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
better sense, just mark it up that way. Best, Dick - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: David Cramer [mailto:dcra...@motive.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:43 PM To: Dick Hamilton

RE: [docbook-apps] [ANNOUNCE] herold 5.2.3

2010-02-11 Thread Dick Hamilton
[mailto:ml...@dbdoclet.org] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:31 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] [ANNOUNCE] herold 5.2.3 Hello Dick, it seems that your HTML file contains only a HTML fragment without a html document element. Can you

RE: [docbook-apps] [ANNOUNCE] herold 5.2.3

2010-02-10 Thread Dick Hamilton
Michael, I'm trying to get herold running, but am running into the following error. My guess is that it's looking for a jar that I don't have, but I'm not sure. Can you advise? Thanks, Dick Hamilton == org.dbdoclet.trafo.TrafoException

[docbook-apps] WIKI for DocBook and Google Summer of Code

2010-01-29 Thread Dick Hamilton
hope this proves useful. Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:24 PM To: Stefan Seefeld; docb

RE: [docbook-apps] WIKI for DocBook and Google Summer of Code

2010-01-29 Thread Dick Hamilton
:39 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] WIKI for DocBook and Google Summer of Code On 01/29/2010 05:24 PM, Dick Hamilton wrote: While the DocBook Wiki is being looked into, I've setup a wiki at: http://docbook.xmlpress.net The idea is to provide

RE: [docbook-apps] WIKI for DocBook and Google Summer of Code

2010-01-29 Thread Dick Hamilton
Per Murphy's law, just after I go the wiki running, my ISP went wonkers, so for the moment you will see 500 Internal Server Error when you try to access the new wiki. I'll do what I can to get it back as quickly as possible. Dick - XML Press XML for Technical

RE: [docbook-apps] WIKI for DocBook and Google Summer of Code

2010-01-29 Thread Dick Hamilton
Murphy's law has been evaded for the moment, and the site is back up again. http://docbook.xmlpress.net Sorry for any inconvenience. Dick - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624

[docbook-apps] ANN: oXygen/ XML Editor Manual available in print form

2010-01-22 Thread Dick Hamilton
-editor. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/098221913X Barnes and Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Oxygen-XML-Editor-Version-11-User-Manua l/SyncRO-Soft-Ltd/e/9780982219133/ (At the moment, the Barnes and Noble version is about 10% cheaper.) Best Regards, Dick Hamilton

RE: [docbook-apps] Unicode check mark missing in XSL-FO PDF output

2009-11-30 Thread Dick Hamilton
the pdf using the standard stylesheets with no stylesheet customization. That will help you eliminate your customization as the problem. Hope that helps. Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net http://xmlpress.net/ (970) 231

RE: [docbook-apps] Creating a DocBook glossary in a distributed documentation production environment

2009-09-07 Thread Dick Hamilton
. Hope that helps. Dick Hamilton - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 -Original Message- From: Karen Schneider [mailto:kgschnei...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 12:11 PM To: docbook-apps Subject

RE: [docbook-apps] DocBook Customization

2009-05-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
Scott, Good points. I'm a firm fan of DocBook and think it can do anything that DITA can (and more). But, if anyone on the list has the chops to do a DITA XSL: The Definitive Guide, let me know; I think it's needed and I'd like to publish it. Dick Hamilton - XML

RE: [docbook-apps] Modular DocBook IS WORKING!

2009-04-03 Thread Dick Hamilton
head start, and of course the list, as you've seen, will also respond. All that said, I think there is a need for a primer/cookbook for DocBook to cover some of these basic things. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation http

RE: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets

2009-03-28 Thread Dick Hamilton
Barton, You nailed it. Turns out I had Sun's 1.6 on the system, but Ubuntu was pointing to gcj. I used update-alternatives to select 1.6, and that took care of the problem. Everything is back to the expected speed. Thanks for the help. Dick Hamilton Managing Writers: A Real World Guide

RE: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets

2009-03-27 Thread Dick Hamilton
: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:30 PM To: Dick Hamilton; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Strange slowdown in stylesheets I found a good article on the Debian update-alternatives command as regards Java versions: http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/08/29/debian-update

RE: [docbook-apps] What XML parser for xpointer?

2009-02-24 Thread Dick Hamilton
I use xmllint as a pre-processor. I haven't used it to reference by id, myself, but it resolves all sorts of other xpointer references with no problem, so I'm pretty sure it will work fine with ids. Dick Hamilton Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation http

RE: [docbook-apps] Title page docbook5 ns

2009-02-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html If you do a lot of DocBook XSL, his book is worth its weight in gold (http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html). Best Regards, Dick Hamilton Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation http://xmlpress.net

[docbook-apps] .epub guides/information

2009-02-09 Thread Dick Hamilton
., that they have found useful in working with epub? Thanks, Dick Hamilton rlhamil...@frii.com - XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net (970) 231-3624 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: fo:external-graphic w/ # in file name

2008-12-02 Thread Dick Hamilton
this way, but I'm not 100% sure about fop. But, I wouldn't be surprised if it works the same way. Hope that helps. Dick Hamilton http://managingwriters.com -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antti Karanta Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:02 AM

RE: [docbook-apps] aligned left-right sidebar

2008-11-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
. It might take a day or so, but I'd be glad to see if I can round up that code and send it to you if you are interested. Regards, Dick Hamilton http://managingwriters.com -Original Message- From: Lily Galle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 5:09 AM To: docbook

RE: [docbook-apps] frutiger font in XEP

2008-11-17 Thread Dick Hamilton
Lily, You will find a bunch of fonts in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts. I found several varieties of Frutiger in that directory on my machine. I would suggest you start there. I don't know exactly where MSReader puts its fonts, but the odds are that it uses this directory. Best Regards, Dick Hamilton http

RE: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection.

2008-10-24 Thread Dick Hamilton
Hamilton Cc: 'Docbook Apps' Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection. Dick Hamilton wrote: I see, I thought you were after something else. I checked and it looks like this symbol just isn't in the font I was using. You might find it in Arial Unicode

RE: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection.

2008-10-23 Thread Dick Hamilton
in a programlisting and did nothing in a para. Regards, Dick Hamilton -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:05 AM To: Docbook Apps Subject: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection. xsl:param name

RE: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection.

2008-10-23 Thread Dick Hamilton
] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:26 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: 'Docbook Apps' Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Using xep with fo output, font family selection. Dick Hamilton wrote: Dave, You probably don't even need to do this; the default is as you show it below. I use XEP and am

RE: [docbook-apps] XSL-FO stylesheets - where to begin

2008-10-22 Thread Dick Hamilton
and how to use them. If you are looking for a book on XSL-FO, you can check out Dave Pawson's book, XSL-FO: Making XML Look Good in Print: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003555/index.html I have both of these books and use them frequently. Regards, Dick Hamilton http://xmlpress.net -Original

RE: [docbook-apps] Setting font size for program list (fo)

2008-10-14 Thread Dick Hamilton
Tommy, There is a good description of how to do this in Bob Stayton's book on DocBook XSL. Here is a pointer to that section: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FittingText.html#ReduceFontSize Regards, Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net -Original Message- From: Tommy Nordgren

RE: [docbook-apps] Opentype fonts

2008-09-16 Thread Dick Hamilton
://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html#DoubleSided Regards, Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net -Original Message- From: Lillian Sullam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:41 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] Opentype fonts

RE: [docbook-apps] indexterm with zone attribute

2008-06-29 Thread Dick Hamilton
5.0, stylesheets 1.74.0, Saxon 6.5.3, fop 0.94, and the basic index algorithm (though the same thing happens with the Kosek index algorithm). Thanks, Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net - To unsubscribe

RE: [docbook-apps] chapter/title or chapter/info/title - DB5

2008-06-02 Thread Dick Hamilton
You should be able to do one or the other, but not both. I don't think either is preferred, and I believe that either case should be handled the same by the stylesheets. Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net -Original Message- From: Samuel Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

RE: [docbook-apps] Using Schematron to define templates

2008-05-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
I am working on similar project ( creating DB5 template with customized sections etc.) where the instance needs to be a valid DB5 document. I do not know Schematron; however, I have been using RelaxNG schema (customized per requirements) and it's good so far. I think either approach

RE: [docbook-apps] Using Schematron to define templates

2008-05-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
Dick Hamilton wrote: I'm working on a DocBook template for a documentation project plan, and it occurred to me that once I have a template defined, I could create a set of Schematron assertions to check that an instance conforms to the template. How do you define 'conforms

RE: [docbook-apps] Using Schematron to define templates

2008-05-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
Michael, Thanks for the pointers. I like to work from examples, so they should be useful. Dick -Original Message- From: Michael(tm) Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:26 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook

RE: [docbook-apps] Using Schematron to define templates

2008-05-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
Keith, Thanks, this is just what I need. Looks more and more like Schematron is going work very well for this application. Dick -Original Message- From: Keith Fahlgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:27 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: Michael(tm) Smith; docbook

[docbook-apps] Using Schematron to define templates

2008-05-20 Thread Dick Hamilton
the appropriateness of using Schematron versus other methods (e.g., modifying the RelaxNG) for this purpose. Regards, Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

RE: [docbook-apps] db 5 and Dita anyone?

2008-05-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
formalize Norm's strategy. I'd be interested in hearing what others on the list think about formalizing specialization. To that end, I'm copying this to the docbook list, which is probably the best place for that discussion. Dick Hamilton http://rlhamilton.net -Original Message- From

RE: [docbook-apps] Namespace question

2008-03-21 Thread Dick Hamilton
- George Cristian Bina - http://aboutxml.blogspot.com/ oXygen/ XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com Thomas Schraitle wrote: Hi Dick, On Donnerstag, 20. März 2008, Dick Hamilton wrote

[docbook-apps] Namespace question

2008-03-20 Thread Dick Hamilton
/; namespace as though it were in the docbook namespace. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [docbook-apps] Creating customized itemizedlist ...

2008-03-13 Thread Dick Hamilton
That will render without any customization of DocBook or the stylesheets. Then, if you want parameters to look different, you can customize the parameter element in your xsl, which is much easier than adding a new list element. Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Anagha

RE: [docbook-apps] Suppressing toc entries based on role attribute

2008-03-10 Thread Dick Hamilton
: The Complete Guide: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: elizabethw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:54 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] Suppressing toc entries based

RE: [docbook-apps] DB 5 -- Element example not allowed inside element article ?

2008-03-06 Thread Dick Hamilton
... titlethe title/title section../section example/example /article is invalid. If that's not the problem, then if you could post the shortest example you have that fails, that would help diagnose the problem. Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

RE: [docbook-apps] DB 5 -- Element example not allowed inside element article ?

2008-03-06 Thread Dick Hamilton
-to will give you information about how DocBook 5.0 has changed, and also give you suggestions on how best to use DocBook. These two should give you a good start. Dick -Original Message- From: Anagha Tongaonkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:15 PM To: Dick Hamilton Cc

RE: [docbook-apps] Adding new elements to DocBook...

2008-03-06 Thread Dick Hamilton
Anagha, I've answered your questions below. One suggestion; if you're just getting started with DocBook, are you sure you need to add new elements? You may want to get more familiar with standard DocBook before customizing it. Sometimes you'll find that what you need is already there. I am

[docbook-apps] xmllint, xinclude, xpointer, and DocBook 5.0

2008-02-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
xmllint (or some alternate processor) to handle xincludes with xpointer in DocBook 5.0? Thanks, Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [docbook-apps] xmllint, xinclude, xpointer, and DocBook 5.0

2008-02-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
Jirka, That fixed it; thanks very much for your help. Dick -Original Message- From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:01 PM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] xmllint, xinclude, xpointer

RE: [docbook-apps] Website. docbook v5? Documentation.

2008-02-10 Thread Dick Hamilton
Dave, Should the layout.rng be namespaced? I think yes: I agree My reasoning. All the way through the processing, especially chunking, comparisons are made with the xml:id in the actual webpage and the 'id' values in autolayout.xml? 1. This is confusing if one is id and one xml:id

RE: [docbook-apps] Website. docbook v5? Documentation.

2008-02-08 Thread Dick Hamilton
, which is supplied in website-full.rnc. so it may take some untangling. Yes:) Anyway, if you'd like to see what I've got, drop me a line and I'll zip it up and ship it over. I'm sure there are some glitches, but it may be useful. Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [docbook-apps] Glossary sorting in Japanese

2007-12-19 Thread Dick Hamilton
that instead. I'm not sure why, but it does mean that the code should probably use $lowercase and $uppercase instead of uppercase; and lowercase;. Sorry I didn't file an RFE when this first came up, it would have saved at least a little trouble. Dick Hamilton -Original Message- From

[docbook-apps] Abstract handling anomaly

2007-10-17 Thread Dick Hamilton
abstracts should the stylesheets use for 5.0? I don't have a strong opinion, except that I think the attribute sets should carry through regardless. Also, I'd like to be able to place the abstract somewhere other than the titlepage. Regards, Dick Hamilton

[docbook-apps] RE: [docbook] maintaining customized docbook xsl files

2007-10-11 Thread Dick Hamilton
. BTW, If you're going to be doing a lot of DocBook XSL work, his book is worth every penny. Hope that helps. Dick Hamilton P.S. I'm copying this to the docbook-apps list, which is where this kind of question should normally go. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[docbook-apps] RE: TASKS: [docbook-apps] Re: chunk.toc and footnote

2007-10-11 Thread Dick Hamilton
ended up in the right place. But, when I ran it with earlier versions (like 1.70.0), it failed as you describe. So, you may want to try the latest version and see if that solves the problem. Regards, Dick Hamilton -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-05 Thread Dick Hamilton
association and missed this the first time. Thanks, Dick -Original Message- From: George Cristian Bina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:52 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: 'DocBook Apps Mailing List' Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like

RE: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-04 Thread Dick Hamilton
anything that looks ok and validates. Therefore, if you want them to use replaceable, wordasword, firstterm, etc., then those choices need to be easily accessible or they'll simply choose some convenient element, like emphasis, that has the styling they want. Dick Hamilton

RE: [docbook-apps] White space in fo question

2007-09-07 Thread Dick Hamilton
Dave, Since I'm willing to have the author insert the two spaces between sentences, I think the main question is whether there is a combination of parameters/attributes that would preserve all spaces except those at the beginning of the line in wrapped contexts (like para). No,

RE: [docbook-apps] White space in fo question

2007-09-06 Thread Dick Hamilton
preserve all spaces except those at the beginning of the line in wrapped contexts (like para). Thanks very much, Dick -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:53 AM To: Dick Hamilton Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject

[docbook-apps] White space in fo question

2007-09-05 Thread Dick Hamilton
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

RE: [docbook-apps] customization layer for DocBook 5.0: TheTransition Guide

2007-08-30 Thread Dick Hamilton
, and checked it back in. So the change is included in the source and will be in the next published revision of the document (unless one of the owners chooses to revert it). Thanks for adding that note. Dick Hamilton - To unsubscribe

RE: [docbook-apps] Making hyperlinks of page numbers in PDF index

2007-08-13 Thread Dick Hamilton
Cheri, 0.93 does generate hyperlinks in your pdf index. Incidentally, I've found 0.93 to be very useful. It won't do everything the XEP or Antenna House can do, but I did find that it's a lot better than 0.20.5 and is definitely worth a look if you can't use a commercial processor. Dick

RE: [docbook-apps] Balanced last page in two column output

2007-08-01 Thread Dick Hamilton
David, Thanks for the pointer; I'll take a look and if I come up with something useful for the list, I'll post it. Dick -Original Message- From: David Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:18 PM To: Dick Hamilton; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject

[docbook-apps] Balanced last page in two column output

2007-07-31 Thread Dick Hamilton
references on how to do this. Does anyone know if it can be done, and if so, how to do it? If it makes any difference, I'm using DocBook 5.0, the 1.73.0 stylesheets, Saxon 6.5.3, and FOP 0.93 on Linux. Thanks, Dick Hamilton

RE: [docbook-apps] book / info / abstract / footnote not generatedinto HTML

2007-07-25 Thread Dick Hamilton
hadn't had a chance to do before:-). Dick Hamilton - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [docbook-apps] suppressing everything but the content of body in xhtml output

2007-06-12 Thread Dick Hamilton
, tidy works pretty well. If you're not familiar with tidy, check out tidy.sourceforge.net. Dick Hamilton -Original Message- From: Brett Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:05 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] suppressing

RE: [docbook-apps] Using Japanese in FOP

2007-05-17 Thread Dick Hamilton
that contains the code described above. That should do the trick. There may be other gotchas with larger examples, but I hope this gets you headed in the right direction. Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Eckel, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16

[docbook-apps] Catalog related problem

2007-03-05 Thread Dick Hamilton
the 1.72.0 directory) everything works fine. So, I'm pretty sure that the catalog mechanism is involved, but I can't figure out where or whether this is a setup problem or a bug. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks, Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [docbook-apps] Catalog related problem

2007-03-05 Thread Dick Hamilton
to resolve this problem, I'd be glad to hear them. Thanks, Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:17 PM To: Dick Hamilton; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Catalog