RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
Apologies for being so harsh. And I have nothing against DocBook or its documentation. I just don't feel that the community would be served well if the 2.0.2 version was hardcopied as is. I tend to buy books as references and I feel that the 2.0.2tar file of the TDG would give the wrong

DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-29 Thread Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33)
Hi, I tried to force a pagebreak using beginpage/, but there was no suitable result, just the red line.. beginpage/beginpage within the PDF. I've used: XML DocBook 5.0 beta FOP 0.20.2, DocBook-FO Stylesheets 1.44 Xalan 2.2.D11 Any help would be appreciated, Christian Kaiser

DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook to OpenOffice OfficeDocument transformation?

2001-10-29 Thread Ian Castle
Has any one thought about/ done anything about a docbook/XML to the OpenOffice OfficeDocument XML transformation (i.e. a conversion to OpenOffice/Star Office file formats, in the same way as we have a conversion to RTF). Might be quite an interesting project

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:55 29/10/2001 +0100, camille wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your input, but I cannot get rid of the bug... It seems that Saxon accesses the DTD OK, because if I put a wrong path for the DTD in the source document, I get a fatal error. Also, I don't know if it's related, but this is Xalan's

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:06 29/10/2001 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33) wrote: I tried to force a pagebreak using beginpage/, but there was no suitable result, just the red line.. Red output from stylesheet means that there is not suitable template for processing your markup. It means

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-29 Thread Jirka Kosek
Dave Pawson wrote: I've used template match="something" fo:block break-before="page"/ Any reason thats not suitable? It is perfectly suitable, but I have never seen anyone using pagebreak before. Jirka

DOCBOOK-APPS: newbie: jadetex and fonts

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Sarette
I've been trying to figure out how to get new fonts known to jadetex/pdjadetex so that my PDF and PS output look, well, like they should. If I stick to the standard built in fonts (Palatino, for example), everything is fine. But when I try to use something that wasn't installed by default

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: pagebreak in pdf using fop

2001-10-29 Thread Michael Smith
Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I tried to force a pagebreak using beginpage/, but there was no suitable result, just the red line.. beginpage/beginpage within the PDF. I don't think beginpage/ is intended to be used as a way to force pagebreaks in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing id ?!?

2001-10-29 Thread Christopher R. Maden
At 10:44 29-10-2001, Dave Pawson wrote: I don't know which parser Xalan uses, Xalan uses Xerces by default. but I've just been put off Aelfred, the parser with Saxon. I now use Xerces called up from Saxon command line Care to elaborate? What put you off Ælfred? -Chris -- Christopher R.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML-PDF

2001-10-29 Thread Ian Castle
Currently I am very happy with the SGML/XML - PDF via jade/DSSSL toolchain. We (my company) don't really have any open issues. We are using the toolchain to produce release notes, user guides and, more recently, course notes (which are mainly being converted from MS word documents). However, you