On 14 January 2015 at 01:23, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lex, thanks for your response. I will look at the dblatex manual, for my > edification would you mind explaining this? > >> This is used when generating xsl:fo for rendering by the FOP >> toolchain, not dblatex, thats why it didn't work. > > What is the FOP toolchain and what do you mean by generating xsl:fo for it?
An alternative to dblatex see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X14 Cheers Lex > > Thanks, > Andrew Myers > > On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 6:56:08 PM UTC-5, Lex Trotman wrote: >> >> On 13 January 2015 at 07:14, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, I'm experimenting with asciidoc as an alternative to Latex, which >> > I've been using for years. I like the >> > idea of a simpler more portable format but I'm having trouble >> > customizing >> > it. >> > I'm trying to change the default body font size in a document. I'm on >> > Ubuntu and I dug around a bit and found >> > /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl which seems to contain all the docbook >> > font >> > settings. >> >> This is used when generating xsl:fo for rendering by the FOP >> toolchain, not dblatex, thats why it didn't work. >> >> > >> > I copied this into my local asciidoc-dblatex.xsl file and updated the >> > settings >> > >> > <xsl:param name="body.font.master">15</xsl:param> >> > <xsl:param name="body.font.size"> >> > <xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master"/><xsl:text>pt</xsl:text> >> > </xsl:param> >> > >> > This had no effect, I tried a variety of things, including replacing the >> > content of 'body.font.size' with the literal text '15pt'. >> > After this didn't work I tried editing the file >> > /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl directly, which also made no changes to >> > the >> > document. >> > >> > I'm invoking a2x like this: >> > >> > a2x -L -f pdf --dblatex-opts "-p asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" file.adoc >> > >> > My two questions are >> > >> > 1) Is this the expected way of passing the custom xsl file? I tried >> > using >> > the --xsl-file option but this didn't seem to work. >> > It feels a bit odd to need to pass the file inside another options >> > block. >> >> Yes thats how you pass options to the dblatex command. >> >> > >> > 2) How do I change the font size? More generally, why did what I tried >> > not >> > work? >> > >> >> I think dblatex uses latex styles to control rendering, see >> http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/index.html. >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> >> > Thanks, >> > Andrew Myers >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "asciidoc" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
