Re: DOCBOOK: autotoc.xsl

2001-02-13 Thread Bob Stayton
for Docbook XSL. For HTML there is a parameter generate.component.toc that by default is set to 1. If you set that to zero it turns off the component tocs. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: little docbook xsl problem

2001-02-27 Thread Bob Stayton
4xslt to process the xml input. I don't think this is a stylesheet problem. I can use Xalan and Saxon to process your sample, and they do not concatenate the titles. I've not used 4xslt, but I would suspect a bug there. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street

Re: DOCBOOK: dbpoolx.mod

2001-04-04 Thread Bob Stayton
bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Inter-Document Links between Articles

2001-07-30 Thread Bob Stayton
and use of olink. I'd like to hear from anyone who is using or has tried olink, and what their experiences were. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice

Re: DOCBOOK: Unbreakable paragraph

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Stayton
of a block. Could anyone tell me how to do this? I'm not sure I understand. Your example shows a line break in the middle of the block (after 'text'). You want to avoid that line break in your output, or do you want to avoid line breaks in your text line? Are you using DSSSL or XSL? bobs Bob

Re: DOCBOOK: Query

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Stayton
. Is this perhaps a bug with the way IE5 handles the stylesheet processing? bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International

Re: DOCBOOK: Help with chapter headings in conversion to HTML

2001-09-21 Thread Bob Stayton
. There is also a '%s' for subtitle. I'm writing up stuff like this for inclusion in a new version of the chapter in Norm's book on processing DocBook with XSL stylesheets. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: [ #456174 ] Req: a YearRange within copyright

2001-09-24 Thread Bob Stayton
applications to parse a range into individual years. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc

Re: inlinegraphic going away... (Was Re: DOCBOOK: image with link)

2001-09-25 Thread Bob Stayton
perhaps you aren't using a phrase element? bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429

Re: DOCBOOK: Producing an Index

2001-10-05 Thread Bob Stayton
in Docbook xml, since it processes it entirely in memory from the document tree. But you do get an HTML index along with your other HTML output. If that isn't what you want, and your really need a DocBook XML index file, I think you would have to write your own XSL stylesheet to do that. bobs Bob

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

2001-10-18 Thread Bob Stayton
would be much easier. 8^) bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: xref accross imported files when using slides

2001-10-23 Thread Bob Stayton
to nonexistent id: helson99. Any workaround for this? Or am I doing something wrong? The problem is that slides.dtd does not contain biblioentry, so the id attribute you use is not of type ID, so IDREFs can't connect to it. It looks like bibliomset is supported instead. bobs Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: [website] newbie q

2001-11-05 Thread Bob Stayton
. 8^) bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: format notations

2001-11-08 Thread Bob Stayton
that has access to the DTD may be using the NOTATION information, but I wouldn't know it We could use the time-honored change it and see what breaks method to find out. 8^) bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsert external files

2001-11-12 Thread Bob Stayton
. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Names and addresses

2001-11-14 Thread Bob Stayton
? why 'must' I have an affiliation? Same with email, since not every author has an email address, or wants to publicize it. Maybe all the + should be ? . bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking: removing linkend

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Stayton
) and an xlink:href (a URI) are not the same thing. If someone wants to link to something beyond an IDREF, then they try out xlink. We get to gradually resolve the inevitable problems that arise with xlinks, and when everyone is convinced they supercede linkend, we remove it in V6. bobs Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Stayton
or other higher constructs be simple xlinks. The current delivery mechanisms can't express that very well. And if it can't be expressed, I doubt it will be used much. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Stayton
. Not that resolving external links is an easy thing. I highly recommend Norm's paper XML Linking and Style (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-link-style/) for an informed presentation of the difficulties of resolving external links in styled documents. bobs Bob Stayton 400

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Stayton
From: Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | This is why I think it is not yet practical to let | para or other higher constructs be simple xlinks. The | current delivery mechanisms can't express that very well. | And if it can't be expressed

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

2001-11-16 Thread Bob Stayton
win for anyone doing large documents (sets, books, references, etc). I'm posting to docbook-apps a message about a new way to use olink to process external links with DocBook 4.1.2 without resorting to XLink. It includes a short example of doing modular doc this way. bobs Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: website dtd newbie

2001-11-20 Thread Bob Stayton
If you are still unable to resolve your catalogs in xsltproc, check the version of libxml2 that it is based on. Libxml2 version 2.3.7 had a broken catalog function that was fixed in 2.3.8. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook cosmetics

2001-09-29 Thread Bob Stayton
customizing the DSSSL stylesheets by reading section 4.3.8 in Norm Walsh's DocBook: The Definitive Guide at http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html. ~ bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Re: DOCBOOK: Standard for stock symbols/quotes?

2001-10-09 Thread Bob Stayton
any markup specific to stock symbols. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: listitem

2001-12-02 Thread Bob Stayton
each of your main listitems, use a variable list for this structured information. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics (Re[2]:listitem)

2002-01-03 Thread Bob Stayton
(and | don't read the documentation), I guess it might be natural to assume | that a Variablelist is a list of variables. Yes, I suppose. RTFM, I guess. Renaming variablelist at this point would create a significant legacy problem for a very small return, IMHO. Amen! Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook/website : problems building it

2002-01-14 Thread Bob Stayton
work on your system. Have fun hacking! 8^) Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831

Re: DOCBOOK: Image scaling (was Re: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 15 Jan2002)

2002-01-16 Thread Bob Stayton
of the stylesheet system rather than the DTD. Have PIs been considered for things like this? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera

DOCBOOK: The DocBook community thanks Norm

2002-02-04 Thread Bob Stayton
From: Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norm, It's a joy to work with you on DocBook stuff. Despite your being the recognized world expert on DocBook, you still listen respectfully to suggestions and treat DocBook as a community project. I've always

Re: DOCBOOK: Problems creating pdf file of tdg

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Stayton
the appropriate Saxon extensions file, such as extensions/saxon643.jar, in your CLASSPATH? You'll need to do that to get the extension code. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Stayton
child of mediaobject as you propose also makes sense. You can allow it for inlinemediaobject, but I think it would have limited use once programlisting and literallayout can have it directly. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert externalfiles

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Stayton
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:03:47PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: / Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | I'm generally supportive of this approach to including | text files as valid objects. But I question its inclusion | in inlinemediaobject. Consider that the textobject

Re: DOCBOOK: Problems creating pdf file of tdg

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Stayton
book that must meet high standards of quality just yet. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc

Re: DOCBOOK: RFE 513426: Text alternative for tables

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Stayton
, the text alternative is a description of the contents of the table, not a plain text formatted representation of the table content (like nroff produces), right? This proposal sounds fine to me. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook markup question -- sourcecode

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Stayton
specific elements easy. If you put your source code in programlisting elements, and create a CSS stylesheet that styles div.programlisting, then you can get what you want. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: Newbie - xref end tag problem

2002-02-11 Thread Bob Stayton
tag names with uppercase letters (XML tag names are case sensitive and DocBook XML uses all lowercase names). Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics

2002-02-12 Thread Bob Stayton
, and contains no computer-related elements that I can see. 8^) TEI also has a set of XSL stylesheets that are modularized: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Stylesheets/teixsl.html Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Re: DOCBOOK: XML suites to manage DocBook projects?

2002-02-14 Thread Bob Stayton
On view (still formatted) until they get used to the nesting. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model

2002-02-19 Thread Bob Stayton
xpath queries as simple as using element names. Of course, that assumes that you are creating the TOC in the first place and can add the role values. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: tool tips in ulinks

2002-02-25 Thread Bob Stayton
/archives/docbook/DocBook Mailing Archive/a when generating HTML from XML? I see there is to title attribute for ulink. To get this to happen, I suggest you file a feature request in the Docbook Sourceforge project https://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ Tracker - DocBook RFEs - Submit New Bob

DOCBOOK: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Warning using xsl-1.48

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Stayton
? That redundant part of the message was fixed in version 1.48, so it should read: No en localization of TableofContents exists. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: Nested itemizedlists?

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Stayton
? Without seeing a sample, it's impossible to tell. Nested itemizedlists are known to work in DocBook HTML output, I can tell you that much. Does your document validate? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: Alternatives to CalloutList

2002-03-13 Thread Bob Stayton
that is described in The Definitive Guide for callouts, but was not yet implemented in XSL. The limitation to one idref value is simply that HTML doesn't support multi-targeted links. This new feature will still work with your xref-style callout references if the xref element has the id. -- Bob

Re: DOCBOOK: Colwidth attribute of colspec not processed?

2002-03-19 Thread Bob Stayton
on when processing: use.extensions = 1 tablecolumns.extension = 1 And you need to be using either Saxon or Xalan since those are the only processors that support the tablecolumns.extension. The xsltproc processor doesn't yet have it (but coming soon, I hope). -- Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: How to modify XSL?

2002-03-31 Thread Bob Stayton
are the right steps to achieve this? You can find general guidance for customizing the DocBook XSL in the FAQ at: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/index.html -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook-xsl, xml-fo-pdf - table error

2002-04-01 Thread Bob Stayton
. As it says, try running the same command again to resolve cross references (these come from the TOC if you don't have any cross references yourself). You may end up with a pdf file after a second pass. Maybe. 8^) -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: customizing docbook xsl

2002-04-02 Thread Bob Stayton
global name, and may not work for your purposes. Hope this helps. I'd be curious to see it working, and maybe you could contribute a FAQ based on your experience. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Re: DOCBOOK: Needing a single docbook DTD file

2002-04-22 Thread Bob Stayton
the XML or SGML version? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Chapter needs a author element

2002-05-03 Thread Bob Stayton
contain author and many other bibliographic metadata. I think the default chapter title page in XSL outputs the author. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: custom xsl stylesheet and import path

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Stayton
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:47:23AM +, Matt G. wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:06:02AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: That's neat trick. But I don't see an option with Saxon or xsltproc to define an entity on the command line. Which processor can do that? Sorry, I guess I might

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: packagename proposal/RFE

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Stayton
is that they are specific to their subfield. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831

Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: Simplified DocBook V1.0 Candidate Release 1

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Stayton
ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Publishing//EN//XML ../../xmlcharent/iso-pub.e nt PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN ../xml/docbookx.dtd -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: Simplified DocBook V1.0 Candidate Release 1

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Stayton
models are. I keep it bookmarked for that reason. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Announce: Simplified DocBook V1.0 Candidate Release 1

2002-06-06 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:01:38AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I can just edit my copy of the catalog file. But don't you already have a catalog file containing these entries? These are, after all, just the standard ISO and DocBook DTD

Re: DOCBOOK: Attributes for text direction and language

2002-06-16 Thread Bob Stayton
' attribute is declared in the DocBook DTD for just about every element. The 'xml:lang' attribute is outside the DocBook DTD, of course, but is defined in the xml namespace specifically for that purpose. The DocBook XSL stylesheets support both. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal

Re: DOCBOOK: Generate PDF with docbook xsl and Saxon

2002-07-02 Thread Bob Stayton
scheme. This is the PassiveTeX extension that parses the XSLFO file and applies TeX formatting. Note Tables processed by PassiveTeX currently require width specifications with units in colspec elements. Proportional width specifications do not work. -- Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: index

2002-07-04 Thread Bob Stayton
- Caramail - http://www.caramail.com Add an empty index element index/ to your document. You just have to tell the stylesheet where it should go and it will handle the rest. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA

Re: DOCBOOK: email in author element

2002-07-08 Thread Bob Stayton
, then you have to do: authoraffiliationaddressemail[EMAIL PROTECTED]/email/address/affiliation/author -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427

Re: DOCBOOK: email in author element

2002-07-08 Thread Bob Stayton
to procedure in sect1. The procedure needs to be either in the preceding sect2 or in a new sect2. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera

Re: DOCBOOK: Custization: HTML without html, head and body tags

2002-07-11 Thread Bob Stayton
as html. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: SYSTEM identifier

2002-07-12 Thread Bob Stayton
/docbook/xml/4.0/docbookx.dtd; That works too, but requires the DTD to be fetched over the internet each time your document is processed. Most people change that to a local pathname to docbookx.dtd. Hope this helps. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: numbered QA entries how?

2002-07-19 Thread Bob Stayton
. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: How to switch off draft mode

2002-07-23 Thread Bob Stayton
' as it was but 'no'. Thanks in advance. I agree. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429

Re: DOCBOOK: argh ... how do i define page breaks using CSS?

2002-07-27 Thread Bob Stayton
appreciate any feedback you might have. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-07-28 Thread Bob Stayton
when id not exist in current edition ? id may be visible after join of documents. That's true, and you don't find out until you vaildate the joined document. I don't know of another tool that can check across includes or system entities for ID/IDREFs. -- Bob Stayton

DOCBOOK: Re: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-07-29 Thread Bob Stayton
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:13:37AM +0400, Vitaly Ostanin wrote: Bob Stayton wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:06:26PM +0400, Vitaly Ostanin wrote: skipped applies. Do you mean you want xref to be able to declare some fallback text if the generated text is not available? Yes

Re: DOCBOOK: Problem with simplesect within section

2002-08-09 Thread Bob Stayton
of the 4.2 DTD? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: curious about duplicated elements

2002-08-11 Thread Bob Stayton
that were building up as DocBook evolved. It is possible to have a title in both places, but the stylesheet 'policy' in XSL is to use bookinfo/title if that is available, otherwise use title. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect

Re: DOCBOOK: Some detail questions

2002-08-12 Thread Bob Stayton
to customize them but did not succeed. How can I do this? The templates you are looking for are in html/inline.xsl. You could alter their behavior using a customization layer. The FAQ shows you how to do a customization layer. Have fun. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal

Re: DOCBOOK: converting to docbook

2002-08-13 Thread Bob Stayton
the DocParse tool from www.commmandprompt.com to convert them to DocBook. DocParse is not free, but it is not expensive either. For your PDF documents, I'd look for the source document that generated the PDF. It is tough (impossible?) to convert PDF. -- Bob Stayton 400

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-14 Thread Bob Stayton
that if there is a role value, that it should just replace the element name? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-15 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:41:58PM -0500, John R. Daily wrote: At (time_t)1029465981 Dave Pawson wrote: At 00:17 15/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: I notice that the HTML 4.0 spec says the class attribute can be a space-separated list of names. That sounds like you could have both

Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...

2002-08-22 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:50:41AM -0700, Dave Pawson wrote: At 15:35 21/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: Footnotes are annotations, but not all annotations must be footnotes, even in print. I'm hoping the annotation mechanism might be used to put annotations next to paragraphs in a wide

Re: DOCBOOK: Queries on calstblx.dtd file,docbookx.dtd and soextblx.dtd

2002-08-30 Thread Bob Stayton
of the DTD at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2/index.shtml It has the filename 'docbook.dtd'. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: docbook vs latex

2002-09-03 Thread Bob Stayton
for... Be seeing you, norm -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice

Re: DOCBOOK: How best to extends the FO-Style

2002-09-26 Thread Bob Stayton
go about it? For the general methods, see the doc I wrote at: http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html I'm currently writing up the specifics for FO customization, and will make something available soon. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street

Re: DOCBOOK: number continuation with orderedlist

2002-10-01 Thread Bob Stayton
attribute for any interior nested orderedlists. That also does not appear to be implemented in the XSL stylesheets. That would be another feature request if you want that to actually work. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect

Re: DOCBOOK: problems with install on windows platform

2002-10-08 Thread Bob Stayton
the htmlhelp output. But without validation I presume. Try setting the env variable XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1 to see what is going on with catalog resolution. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for definitions

2002-10-09 Thread Bob Stayton
haven't tried using that yet. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Landscaped pages

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Stayton
the page-height and page-width appropriately and you should get landscape pages. If you are using the DocBook XSL stylesheets, you can get landscape output for your document by setting the 'page.orientation' parameter to 'landscape'. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal

Re: DOCBOOK: What is included in a set?

2002-10-15 Thread Bob Stayton
). For a description of how to use XInclude, see: http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427

Re: DOCBOOK: Two columns

2002-10-17 Thread Bob Stayton
? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Inserting external code into docbook

2002-10-23 Thread Bob Stayton
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:42:46PM +0200, Joachim Ziegler wrote: According to question 26 in the DocBook Markup FAQ, I tried the following: -- (Bob Stayton says) You can use following construct to include external code. You only need the inlinemediaobject

Re: DOCBOOK: Inserting external code into docbook

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Joachim Ziegler wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 18:26 schrieb Bob Stayton: Looking back in the archives, it seems that this is how you do it with 4.1.2: programlisting inlinemediaobject imageobject imagedata fileref=myfunc.c

Re: DOCBOOK: Two columns

2002-10-17 Thread Bob Stayton
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:25:13AM -0700, Marcio de Oliveira Buss wrote: Bob Stayton wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:26:30PM -0700, Marcio de Oliveira Buss wrote: Folks, I am trying to write a technical paper using docbook. How can I switch between one column text and two

Re: DOCBOOK: generating context-dependant elements in source tree

2002-10-28 Thread Bob Stayton
? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Advantages of XInclude?

2002-11-07 Thread Bob Stayton
validating files that include Xincludes. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer because Xinclude is such a flexible mechanism. It all depends on how you use it. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Advantages of XInclude?

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Stayton
Iconv Unicode Regexps Automata Does xmllint only support SGML catalogs, or am I missing something? -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Advantages of XInclude?

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Stayton
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:33:16AM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:14:30PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:34:17AM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: Right, XInclude requires the addition of xml:base at the inclusion point (unless the document

Re: AW: DOCBOOK: docbook suitable for book - creation ?

2002-11-19 Thread Bob Stayton
, FrameMaker gives you an interactive environment that lets you tweak each page of a book. That's not easy with DocBook. So DocBook is most effective when you have a lot of content using the same standardized stylesheet, and you don't need to tweak each page. -- Bob Stayton

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 Nov 2002

2002-11-19 Thread Bob Stayton
at the same level, do you? Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: New element for Step alternatives?

2002-11-21 Thread Bob Stayton
) These changes would accomodate Sabine's cases, keep the content models easy to understand, and leave us room to grow--outward rather than inward. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: programlisting and email

2002-11-24 Thread Bob Stayton
all the %person.ident.mix elements. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: ambiguity in xref regarding cross-reference text

2002-11-25 Thread Bob Stayton
, for the XSL stylesheets the xreflabel takes precedence over the endterm. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group

Re: DOCBOOK: confused about callouts

2002-11-25 Thread Bob Stayton
something here? No, that statement is out of date. The arearefs value can also point to a co element. You can also link in the other direction by putting an id on your callout elements and a matching linkend in the co element. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street

Re: DOCBOOK: Fwd: Looking for advice on appropriate tags

2002-11-26 Thread Bob Stayton
/literallayout /step /substeps /step /procedure -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax

Re: DOCBOOK: Image callouts supported by XSL-FO stylesheet?

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Stayton
stylesheets it seems they don't support the areaspec element for callouts in imageobjectco. Neither for HTML nor FO output. Areaspec is only supported in programlistingco and screenco for callouts in text displays. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications

Re: DOCBOOK: ULINK element within imageobject/imagedata

2002-11-29 Thread Bob Stayton
a feature yet. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887

Re: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (RFE613293)

2002-11-29 Thread Bob Stayton
into a file. But it exists as a programlisting in its own right. And literallayout has many uses that are not filecontents. Don't forget that tables are layout-oriented, but convey meaning by how the words are arranged relative to each other. Bob Stayton 400 Encinal

Re: DOCBOOK: separating sections from chapter titles / toc

2002-11-30 Thread Bob Stayton
=toc.separator fo:block break-before=odd-page/ /xsl:template The first template matches on the first child of chapter regardless of what it is, and calls the toc.separator template. That template inserts a page break that forces to an odd page number. -- Bob Stayton

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