Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Michael Smith
I wrote: |So it looks like if we use a Section-like (instead of Chapter-like) |content model for Topic, it'll mean that Topics can contain only |recursive Sections, not numbered ones (Sect1-Sect5), and that |Topics can't contain Refentrys at all (or Simplesect). Norm wrote:

Re: DOCBOOK: Page footers and Headers.

2001-10-17 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:57:17PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / Phillip Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I want to put The company name in the header and the filename and author in | the footer. The filename isn't available to Jade, so I don't think you can easily do that. But

DOCBOOK: Re: Page footers and Headers.

2001-10-17 Thread Karl Eichwalder
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Phillip Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I want to put The company name in the header and the filename and author in | the footer. The filename isn't available to Jade, so I don't think you can easily do that. Yes. In the beginning of

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Bob McIlvride
1. Online-help peer to Set. Do we actually need one? It would be useful for us. We currently package our book set containing documentation on all of our products, with one version installable into an online helpviewer in the QNX operating system. Most of our products can work together,

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | 1. Online-help peer to Set. Do we actually need one? What will the |processing expectations be for it? Do any of the existing help |systems -- HTML Help, Javahelp, or whatever -- provide any way for |packaging up sets of HTML Help

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:56 16/10/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: What's the plan: The overall plan is to allow people to author Help Sets using all of the rich technical structure of DocBook without shoe-horning it into the classical print book model. Guessing that 'topics' could be viewed in a similar way to

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Nancy (Paisner) Harrison
| 3. Content model for the set-of-topics element (Helpproject). Does it | need to include the navigational components (ToC, LoT, Index)? | These seem useful only if authors want to manually author ToCs, | LoTs, and Indexes, instead of leaving it up to the | stylesheets/helpcompiler to generate

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Nancy (Paisner) Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I, on the other hand, am concerned with not allowing sections in the | mix, since that removes a transparent way to reuse data between | print and online delivery. If you need sections in a topic, use nested topics. Allowing

RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Page footers and Headers.

2001-10-17 Thread Phillip Shelton
Found it. The link is [EMAIL PROTECTED] though. Phill -Original Message- From: Karl Eichwalder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 5:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Page footers and Headers. Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread martin . gautier
|So it looks like if we use a Section-like (instead of Chapter-like) |content model for Topic, it'll mean that Topics can contain only |recursive Sections, not numbered ones (Sect1-Sect5), and that |Topics can't contain Refentrys at all (or Simplesect). I am strongly opposed to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: epcEdit

2001-10-17 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:09:29AM +0900, Michael Smith wrote: Dislikes: * non-Free software For those who want a free-software gui, we're looking for help on the ThotBook project (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/thotbook/) - nothing to test right now, though. Likes: *

DOCBOOK-APPS: Invalid map file for JavaHelp

2001-10-17 Thread Jeff Beal
When building my docset for use in JavaHelp, the full text of some of the pages got built into the map file, as follows: mapID target="ansys.wid.dict" url="Hlp_UI_WidFront.html"/ mapID target="d46e5" url="Hlp_UI_UITOC.html"/Welcome to ANSYS 6.0 Documentation HTML Online

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xtchunk.xsl - Navigation Images and xml editors

2001-10-17 Thread Brendan Boyle
Bob, Thank you very much for your response. This information is exactly what I needed. If anyone else in the list would like a copy of the template I am creating please email me and I will forward it on to you. Thanks again. Brendan

DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating TOC with Saxon

2001-10-17 Thread Jeff Beal
I'm having problems getting Saxon to generate table of contents. I've tried passing parameters to DocBook via the command-line and in a stylesheet. I've tried having every 'generate.xxx.toc' set to 1, and tried setting some of them to zero. I haven't yet hit on the right combination to