Hi guys, Thanks for all your help. I got it to work.
Request a quick review to make sure that I did not do something silly. In case the email below is hard to read, please go to http://www.ypl.com//build_windows_machines/install_applications/doc_book_to_ html/html_deep/ch09s03.html a.. Create a cascading style sheet w/ a file name of key_words.css w/ the following entry .key_words { background: yellow; }a.. Create a file containing DocBook xml tags w/ a file name of using_role_as_class_name.doc_book_xml w/ the following entries <!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "file://localhost/C:\ypl\doc_book\dtd_xml_4.5b1\docbookx.dtd"> <book> <title> Some Book Title </title> <chapter> <title> Some Chapter Title </title> <para> First sentence with no highlighting. </para> <para> Second sentence with highlighting which <emphasis role="key_words">starts here and goes until here</emphasis> but does not highlight entire sentence. </para> </chapter> </book>a.. Create a DOS batch file setting the following paramters 1.. emphasis.propagates.style: 1 2.. html.stylesheet: file://localhost/C:\ypl\doc_book\key_words.css a.. The DOS batch file name was using_role_as_class_name.bat and it contained the following contents REM REM Set the classpath REM set classpath=.; REM REM REM Output contents of environment variables REM set REM REM REM Generate HTML from DocBook XML REM "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_22\bin\java" ^ -cp C:\ypl\java\xalan.jar;C:\ypl\java\serializer.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process ^ -v ^ -xsl "C:\ypl\doc_book\xsl_1.75.2\html\chunk.xsl" ^ -in using_role_as_class_name.doc_book_xml ^ -param "emphasis.propagates.style" "1" ^ -param "html.stylesheet" "file://localhost/C:\ypl\doc_book\key_words.css" ^ -param "base.dir" "html/" EXIT -----Original Message----- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:da...@dpawson.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:50 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How do I highlight inline text ? On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 06:13:09 -0400 "Robert Lucente" <rluce...@pipeline.com> wrote: > Thanks for reminding me about color blind people and the link to the > colors. > > Since I am interested in "Highlight text" (text with a background > color), I should really be using the CSS background-color property. > My bad. No, not bad. My favourite quote. Everyone needs the idiot sheet.... at least once. I certainly did. I'm now a confirmed CSS convert. Just irritated that it hasn't kept pace with other developments, or at least not in the browsers. Its nearly brilliant. It's certainly good. regards -- regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
