@Andrew I downloaded dblatex-0.3.2 and searched for 'body.font.size' like $ find dblatex-0.3.2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 fgrep -i 'body.font.size'
There is no output, i.e. there is no body.font.size. Neither in the source nor in the documentation. This answers your question 2) On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:20 PM, wolfgang häfelinger <[email protected] > wrote: > > > An alternative to > > dblatex see > [..] > > > I > gnorance is bliss > ! > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Wolfgang Häfelinger > > -- Wolfgang Häfelinger -- 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.
