[docbook-apps] [ANN] Webinar: Publish technical documentation to Zendesk with Paligo

[ANN] Webinar: Publish technical documentation to Zendesk with Paligo Paligo - the leading cloud CCMS for technical documentation based on DocBook XML has released major updates to offer even more flexible output channels. Paligo allows you to single-source your content, manage it with version

[docbook-apps] XSLT cannot find UnwrapLinks.so

Hi! When observing a HTML build with strace, I see a ridiculous large number of entries like this: stat("/usr/lib/libxslt-plugins/nwalsh_com_xslt_ext_com_nwalsh_saxon_UnwrapLinks.so", 0x7ffc9f117ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) That plugin seems dead

Re: [docbook-apps] Match on Language

Hi Peter! I think it would be helpful to know what you are trying to accomplish. Could you be little bit more specific? Are we talking PDF or HTML output? Or some kind of identity transformation? What is the desired output? Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical

Re: [docbook] Add "danger" to the list of possible admonitions?

+1 Nice initiative! > 3 maj 2016 kl. 12:41 skrev Thomas Schraitle : > > Hi, > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:15:24 +0200 > Thomas Schraitle wrote: > >> a DocBook writer asked me why there is no "danger" element in DocBook. >> >> [...] > > I've added an RFE on

Re: [docbook] Add "danger" to the list of possible admonitions?

I totally agree with Thomas. As Thomas pointed out, there is an industry standard in Europe (maybe in other parts of the world too?) saying that you actually must differentiate between hazard statements. And danger is used to express a high risk of injury and/or death, whereas "caution" is

Re: [docbook-apps] Content model for caption wrong?

Hi! Ok, I see. Thank you Radu! /frank > 4 feb 2016 kl. 12:16 skrev Radu Coravu : > > Hi Frank, > > Your link is from the Docbook 4 Guide. > The Docbook 5 specs for "caption" does not seem to allow mixed content inside > it: > >>

[docbook-apps] Content model for caption wrong?

content model wrong or the Docbook RNG Schema? Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation www.paligo.se <http://www.paligo.se/>

[docbook-apps] Caption on informalfigure not recognised by PDF stylesheet?

Some para […] Caption comes here The snippet validates as valid Docbook XML but the resulting PDF however shows the caption element in red (no matching template found). I am using 1.78.1. Can someone confirm that this is a bug? Thank you! /Frank Arensmeier Paligo - T

[docbook-apps] Madcap Flare to Docbook conversion

sis-open.lists.docbook+page:1+mid:a5szwhwjtaaeoo6j+state:results>). The interview referenced there seems not available anymore. Any ideas? Thanks! /frank Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation www.paligo.se <http://www.paligo.se/>

Re: [docbook-apps] Madcap Flare to Docbook conversion

. The HTML content could very well be transformed with Herold, as you already pointed out. I was hoping for someone who already has done something similar before and who could share some insights. Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation www.paligo.se <h

Re: [docbook-apps] Chunking options for HTML output

Hi! Thomas and Bob, thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I’ll give it a try. /frank Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation www.paligo.se > 18 nov 2015 kl. 23:31 skrev Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net>: > > Hi Frank

[docbook-apps] Chunking options for HTML output

Hi! I am wondering. DITA has the attribute "chunk" that gives the user some control about how a topic/section is treated when it comes to output chunking. Setting that attribute to "to-content", the topic (including its children) is "… rendered as a single chunk of content". Is there something

Re: [docbook-apps] Different style on even/odd page in PDF

mething similar, I couldn't find a > way to automatically do this. > > Dick Hamilton > > XML for Technical Communicators > http://xmlpress.net > >> On Sep 27, 2015, at 12:16, Frank Arensmeier <farensme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi list! >> >&

[docbook-apps] Different style on even/odd page in PDF

Hi list! I am wondering, is it possible to have different style attributes for titles depending on if the title appears on an even or odd page? Of course, for PDF output that is. Suppose I’d like to have my titles in green on even pages and in blue on odd pages. Is that possible? Thanks!

[docbook] Width attribute on table element

Hello! I’d like to make a request regarding the width tribute on the table element. It kind of surprises me that only percent values are allowed according to e.g. http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/html.table.html I’d like to suggest that

Re: [docbook-apps] part should become appendix in another book

Hi there! There is probably some XLST foo out there that does what you want. I’d like to suggest an other approach. Have a look at Xpointers for the x:include element. The attribute xpointer on that element defines an xpath expression (kind of) that is used to select only parts of the document

Re: [docbook-apps] part should become appendix in another book

15:04 GMT+02:00 Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com mailto:farensme...@gmail.com: Hi there! There is probably some XLST foo out there that does what you want. I’d like to suggest an other approach. Have a look at Xpointers for the x:include element. The attribute xpointer

Re: [docbook-apps] Time for new DocBook Stylesheet Release?

1 jul 2015 kl. 11:56 skrev Peter Desjardins peter.desjardins...@gmail.com: Do you have any output targets in mind? What would be interesting to you? Peter On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'd be interested to know what to expect

Re: [docbook-apps] Time for new DocBook Stylesheet Release?

Hi! I'd be interested to know what to expect from these updates to come too – besides bug fixes I mean. Are there any plans to implement some new and exciting output targets? We have been building a CCMS system with Docbook as its backbone. So for my company it would be very important to know

[docbook] Fwd: Simplified DocBook RelaxNG schema not valid?

Hello! I wrote previously to the docbook-apps list and realised that this list might be more appropriate. Please find my question below. Thank you! /frank Vidarebefordrat brev: Från: Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com Ämne: Simplified DocBook RelaxNG schema not valid? Datum: 18

[docbook-apps] Problem with http://www.sagehill.net

Hi! I’m getting a ”Permanently moved” message when trying to access http://www.sagehill.net Is this site gone? Cheers, /frank - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands,

Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with http://www.sagehill.net

10 jun 2014 kl. 11:48 skrev Stefan Hinz stefan.h...@oracle.com: Maybe a temporary failure? I can access it fine, including http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html. I get a 404 forhttp://www.sagehill.net/personal/ElectricRabbit.htm, but I can live with that. :-) Hi Stefan! Thank you

Re: [docbook-apps] Custom colors for admonitions

Hi Brett! Which version of the stylesheets are you using? There is a version that uses a namespace and one that doesn’t. /frank 29 apr 2014 kl. 10:24 skrev Brett Davis brett...@gmail.com: Hi Dean, Thanks for the speedy answer. Unfortunately, that doesn't let me give each admonition a

Re: [docbook-apps] Producing interactive PDF forms from DocBook content with XEP

9 apr 2014 kl. 11:01 skrev Bergfrid Skaara bergfrid.digitald...@gmail.com: We have a large amount of PDFs generated from modular and singlesourced DocBook XML, and need to expand that portfolio with ineractive PDF forms. All trails lead back to

Re: [docbook-apps] Table Center

26 mar 2014 kl. 14:09 skrev Rogério Rosa rogerio.r...@eixodigital.com: Hello, I am having a hard time to centre a table when the width is less than 100%. There is any way to centre it? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Hi! I suppose you are talking about PDF output, right? My

Re: [docbook-apps] Table Center

26 mar 2014 kl. 15:36 skrev Rogério Rosa rogerio.r...@eixodigital.com: Thanks, However I need to ask if that works with apache fop ? I am getting some strange behaviour, the table is centred but it shrinks in comparison with the desired size. Any ideias ? Would it be possible for

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Syntax highlighting

10 dec 2013 kl. 07:59 skrev davep da...@dpawson.co.uk: On 09/12/13 16:09, Norman Walsh wrote: I can see you getting 80% with html and CSS... My penneth says you'll fall over on the 20% so I'm -1 on this. Do you believe you can do it? What of re-ordering, toc etc? Oh, you'd need a for

Re: [docbook-apps] Syntax highlighting

7 dec 2013 kl. 21:35 skrev Jirka Kosek ji...@kosek.cz: On 6.12.2013 22:53, Norman Walsh wrote: It appears that modern systems do this in the JavaScript layer on the client. They also use tables to render line numbers. I'm tempted to move in this direction. Comments? I have used both

Re: [docbook-apps] Background for programlisting

15 jun 2012 kl. 01.03 skrev Lars Vogel: Hello, I wanted to add a background color to my programming listings and found an old post from Bob in which he suggested to add the following to the customizing layer: xsl:attribute-set name=shade.verbatim.properties border-color=thin black

[docbook-apps] docbook stylesheets 1.77.0 - webhelp

Dear all. Yesterday I tried to build webhelp from the new stylesheets 1.77.0 There seems to be a bug in the file build.xml. Around line 30 it says: [...] target name=chunk depends=clean mkdir dir=${output-dir}/ tempfile destdir=${output-dir} deleteonexit=true

Re: [docbook-apps] Error messages when building webhelp

changed. But what? /frank 7 feb 2012 kl. 16.43 skrev Frank Arensmeier: Thank you David. I'll try with the snapshot build in stead. /frank 7 feb 2012 kl. 16.19 skrev David Cramer: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Frank, It looks like ant is using xalan. Rather

Re: [docbook-apps] Error messages when building webhelp

/xercesImpl.jar xml-apis.jar=/usr/share/java/xml-apis.jar David On 03/01/2012 08:37 AM, Frank Arensmeier wrote: Finally I had the chance to test your suggestion with the latest DocBook XSL snapshot. But the result is the same. Building webhelp fails with a bunch of errors. Surprisingly, webhelp

[docbook-apps] section element only allows one subtitle, why?

Hi. Just a quick question. I am working with simplified docbook where the element article is the top level element. Mostly because the normal set of docbook elements includes a large number of elements that are totally unnecessary for kinds of documentation other than e.g. software

Re: [docbook-apps] valign on inlinemediaobject no effect?

Enterprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com To: Docbook Apps Help list docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] valign on inlinemediaobject no effect? Hi there. I am

[docbook-apps] Controlling page break after toc

Hi there. I am generating double sided PDF files with the latest docbook xsl stylesheets. Everything is working just fine besides one thing. I'd like to get rid of the blank page that is inserted after the table of contents. How can this be accomplished? I can not find anything suspicious in

[docbook-apps] valign on inlinemediaobject no effect?

Hi there. I am trying to align some inline graphics nicely with the surrounding text. But, setting the attribute valign on the imagedata element has no effect. The image stays aligned relative to the text top whatsoever. By looking at the fo output from the transformation process, I can see

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook, visualized as a treemap

Hi Tim. You might take a look at diffxml. http://diffxml.sourceforge.net/ I think it looks promising. But I am not sure if there is some kind of html visualizer available. cheers, /frank 9 feb 2012 kl. 16.22 skrev Tim Arnold: hi, I wonder if there is already a tool out there to visualize

[docbook-apps] Error messages when building webhelp

Hello all. I am trying to build webhelp but keep getting error messages. Not even the webhelp test build does it's job. Any idea what is going on here? The docbook stylesheets are 1.76.1 and saxon 6.5.5 is installed as it should. Running ant with the noclasspath option does not help (as

Re: [docbook-apps] Error messages when building webhelp

in the doc yet, so do take a look at that. David On 02/07/2012 07:32 AM, Frank Arensmeier wrote: Hello all. I am trying to build webhelp but keep getting error messages. Not even the webhelp test build does it's job. Any idea what is going on here? The docbook stylesheets are 1.76.1

[docbook-apps] feedback, suggestions and criticism?

and access to the demo installation. Regards, /frank arensmeier ps. sorry for my lacking english skills. English is not my mother tongue. ds. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional

[docbook-apps] Simplified Docbook Relax NG schema

Hello. For a system I am working on right now, I need the simplified docbook Relax NG schema file. Google yield the following page: http://www.docbook.org/docbook-ng/simple/ Not sure if those files are official. Anyway. Everything is working great except the fact that elements like warning

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Simplified Docbook Relax NG schema

25 okt 2011 kl. 20.21 skrev Norman Walsh: Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com writes: Not sure if those files are official. Anyway. Everything is working great except the fact that elements like warning and caution are not part of those schema file. I am not sure if there are any other

Re: [docbook-apps] Customising blank page after part title page

. But you can override any of those with a direct custom template of your own. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: Frank Arensmeier farensme...@gmail.com To: Docbook Apps Help list docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Thursday

[docbook-apps] Customising blank page after part title page

Hello all. Is there a (more or less simple) way to customise the blank page that is inserted after the titlepage when generating FO output? In my customisation layer I have tried with different template names: page.titlepage.before.blank, lot.titlepage.before.recto etc. But nothing makes it

Re: [docbook-apps] Ugly stack trace with admon.graphics and FO

Hello Steve! The error you get is most likely caused by some erroneous PNG image file or some other image file with alpha transparency. Ask Google for more information about this issue. You need to find out which image file is causing the error. The most common solution is to simply run that

[docbook-apps] Status on Simplified docbook?

Hello! Just a quick question. Currently, the Docbook subset Simplified Docbook is based on Docbook V4.3 (according to the documentation at OASIS) . Any plans to update to Docbook 5 in the near future? Besides that, I was not able to find any Relax-NG schema for Simplified Docbook, only DTD. I

[docbook-apps] General question about creating docbook documents (maybe OT)

Hi there. I would like to ask the list members: how do you create docbook- compilant XML documents? What does your workflow looks like so to say? Do you write XML files in a XML editor? A web interface? My apologies if this is slightly off topic. I am asking this purely because I am

Re: [docbook-apps] General question about creating docbook documents (maybe OT)

14 apr 2010 kl. 11.38 skrev Mathieu Malaterre: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Frank Arensmeier fr...@nikemedia.se wrote: Hi there. I would like to ask the list members: how do you create docbook- compilant XML documents? What does your workflow looks like so to say? Do you write XML

Re: [docbook-apps] Titleabbrev in outer margin

on that, I managed to calculate the offset value for the fo:block that contains the titleabbrev. /frank 24 mar 2010 kl. 18.46 skrev Frank Arensmeier: Sorry to bother you all. Any ideas regarding this issue? Thank you. /frank 23 mar 2010 kl. 13.02 skrev Frank Arensmeier: Hello list. I am not a XSL

Re: [docbook-apps] Titleabbrev in outer margin

Sorry to bother you all. Any ideas regarding this issue? Thank you. /frank 23 mar 2010 kl. 13.02 skrev Frank Arensmeier: Hello list. I am not a XSL programmer, so I kindly ask you to bear with me. I have a docbook compilant XML file (an operating instruction) that contains several

[docbook-apps] Titleabbrev in outer margin

Hello list. I am not a XSL programmer, so I kindly ask you to bear with me. I have a docbook compilant XML file (an operating instruction) that contains several different languages. Basic outline of the XML file is: part article lang=en title / titleabbrevEnglish/titleabbrev

[docbook-apps] Help with xsl template for image on the titlepage

Hello list members. After hours and hours of trail-and-error, I finally ran out of ideas. I am looking for a way to control presentation of one particular image that is supposed to be used on a titlepage (without editing the input XML). What I have achieved so far is: 1) I customised

Re: [docbook-apps] Styling subtitle

- Original Message - From: Frank Arensmeier fr...@nikemedia.se To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:28 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] Styling subtitle Hello. I'd like to apply some special font style on section subtitles in my pdf but I am not able

[docbook-apps] Styling subtitle

Hello. I'd like to apply some special font style on section subtitles in my pdf but I am not able to find any applicable properties to tweak. I have tried to set section.title.level2.properties (and level3...level6 too for that matter). But it seems that those properties have no effect

[docbook-apps] positioning toc

Hello all. I am rather new to docbook and in the middle of taking one step at a time to the final result. Basically, I am working on a system for producing and maintaining operating instructions in several different languages. Right now I'm stuck though. My idea is to produce a single

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] positioning toc

/current/doc/html/generate.section .toc.level.html Kind Regards Alexander Rabenstein -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank Arensmeier [mailto:fr...@nikemedia.se] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 16:00 An: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Betreff: [docbook-apps] positioning toc Hello all. I