On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Question: If we were to customize our installation to handle this, > > would it be worth feeding that customization back to XMLmind? > > > > No, because there is a clean, generic, way to implement this kind of > customization. See below.
Yes, I understand that. My question was if you would be interested in making such customizations available more generally or if it is was something we should consider our own private customization. Sorry for not being more clear on that. > Please do not change anything in the stock XSL files. Instead follow > what described here: I understand that. I was looking in the stock XSL to see what had to be changed, and to consider what I would change if I were going to feed back something that could be released more generally. > This is pretty easy to do. However, if you have problems doing that, > we'll help you. Thank you. I think the part which is most unclear is how to add command line parameters for the style sheet (such as -p footer-center-color red) > --> In next release, we'll add additional attribute-sets and also > additional properties (needed to adjust the width of each column) > allowing to extensively customize the look of the tabular header/footer. That is interesting, but since it wasn't on the http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/roadmap.html I could not have known you were planning to do that. Again, I wasn't asking you do this work for us, but was curious to know if this would be of more general interest. Your answer here indicates that you have planned work in this area, which is nice to know! > In the vast majority of cases, redefining one or more these additional > attribute-sets/properties should suffice. > > Already having these additional attribute-sets/properties would have > spared you the effort of redefining named template "tabularHeader". Ok, then, to be explicit, you are planning on allowing the kinds of font control (color, size) that we indicated? I think we will do our customization now with the understanding that a future release may allow us to use a completely standard release. Thanks! -Doug -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
