On Monday 15 July 2002 15:29, Kevin Page wrote:

> >   Cann't they already?
>
> It didn't seem to "just work". Looking at the test, this isn't really
> a problem, just because the fileref wasn't to the actual file (which
> could be fixed by hand). As for rendering figure reference numbers, I
> guess this is down to the docbook rendering tools (but they didn't
> come out when previewed from lyx).

  Ok.

> >   I need to work this more since, as an example, pybibliographer also
> > exports
> > docbook.
>
> Hmm, I'd never come across pybibliographer before; it looks
> interesting.
>
> >   Send me an example file, please.
>
> I quickly knocked up an example in lyx the other day. I then exported
> as SGML and passed it to db2ps (part of the docbook-utils RedHat
> package), but it didn't work. I'll mail you the file off list.

  There were some markup missing. Take as an example the author field, it 
should be author: <firstname>F</firstname><surname>D</surname>

> >   It depends, what do you want/need?
> >   If we now that maybe we can point you to the different solutions...
>
> In reality, I don't currently have the time to fix/debug features or
> run an unstable version from CVS. I have one of those dealine things
> to meet :(
> I'm quite happy to accept that DocBook support isn't quite there yet,
> and carry on with latex output (which might be what I ended up using
> for rendering anyway - there's a fairly specific style I need to use).

  If you say that you have a deadline then go with the process that you know 
best. Believe me, I am talking by experience. ;-)

> However, I'd still like to make the switch to docbook eventually, so
> once current pressures have passed I should be back to have another
> go.

  I am glad to hear that. :-)

> Regards,
>
> kev

-- 
Jos� Ab�lio

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