[docbook] namespace markup

I'm writing about XML. I can identify elements, attributes but AFAIK I can't identify namespaces semantically? Any suggestions please? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe,

[docbook] DocBook showcase?

I'm beginning to come up to speed on writing documents with DocBook and I am now at a point where I would need to make decisions regarding style and presentation aspects. Would anyone care to recommend DocBook documents that I might use as a source of inspiration? Or more accurately, documents

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

Hendy Irawan wrote: I've been searching for better-looking XSL stylesheets (like those used by commercial publishers), but haven't found any. But each publisher has different style because each graphic designer has different opinion about good book design. You can hardly create something what

[docbook-apps] XREF to area (callout)

Dear List, Whenever I try to make a xref to a callout the (FO+HTML) stylesheets tell me Don't know what gentext to create for xref to: area. I'd would expect them to output the corresponding callout icon for the xref. I wonder how to get xrefs to callouts (the callout icons) in the text. Best

RE: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

I suppose that almost each project which is using DocBook and FO for generating printed output uses more or less customized stylesheets. I don't believe the issue is capability; substantial tailoring can be obtained from the stringparms. This, combined with the stability and maturity of the

[docbook-apps] thinsp;

Hi all, I want to write a thin space betweeen two character. For this I found the thinsp;-Entity. But if I write in my docbook-File something like this athinsp;b in order to generate a HTML-File with the standard html/docbook.xsl-File I get a html-File with a#8201;b

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

Wow, you guys are seriously active! :-) Thank you Dave and Stefan for your very quick response. On 3/4/07, Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendy Irawan wrote: I wonder if there is already work on producing [open-source] customized stylesheets from the official DocBook XSL so that

[docbook-apps] Putting block-container on top-left corner of page -- Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

Thank you Dave, Stefan, Sean, Jirka, Ray, and Keith for your responses. I'm willing to publish my (upcoming?) customization as open license when it's done but I need to be able to do things that I could have been able to do so within a few seconds in InDesign ;-) First problem is how do I put

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

Perhaps a new section on the DocBook Wiki could be created, and people could contribute their customizations for others to use and learn from? It might be very helpful to those getting started. http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/ Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

On 3/5/07, Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendy Irawan wrote: I agree that the stylesheet is fine and I have a lot of fun writing books, but not designing stylesheets. I'm a web developer and I love to code but I hate to deal with HTML/CSS/Photoshop (it's the designer's job, not

Re: [docbook-apps] block-container with absolute-position=fixed not working

The fo:block-container is supported in fop-0.93, but I've found it does not always work as expected (e.g., the bottom property seems to have no effect). You will also have better results if you define a width and height for the block-container and put a temporary border on it so you can see

Re: [docbook-apps] XREF to area (callout)

I think this is probably an oversight. You can xref to a co element if you are using those, but not to an area element. Can you file a bug report on the DocBook SourceForge site for this? Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message -

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

Hendy Irawan wrote: Anyways, from the problem at hand, it's not enough. I'm currently troubleshooting how to put the chapter title on the top left with some background. And although I've used the technique you described at the near-end of the book (fo:block-container absolute-position=fixed

Re: [docbook-apps] Strange behaviour in my custom titlepage

Hi Jacques, The way XSL-FO works with space-before is that if a block appears first on a page, the space-before property is normally ignored. That is to make the text start in the same place on each page. You can overcome this for a particular block by adding a

[docbook-apps] Catalog related problem

I'm running into a strange problem with the stylesheets that I've traced as far as CatalogManager.properties, but am now stumped on. I have the 1.70.0 and 1.72.0 stylesheets installed, and I'm using saxon 6.5.3 on Suse 10. My source is written to the Website V2.5.0 dtd. When I run the website

Re: [docbook-apps] Catalog related problem

Hi Dick, You might try setting verbosity=4 in the CatalogManger.properties file and see how it is resolving references. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [docbook-apps] Catalog related problem

Bob, Thanks for the suggestion. After sifting through an amazing amount of output:-), I figured it out. I'll describe it here both to confirm the diagnosis and because someone else may run into the same situation. The catalog.xml file for 1.72.0 defines rewrite rules that rewrite URIs from: