[docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-13 Thread Kells Kearney
I've taken a look through the e-mail archives, and I've tried googling, but I'm unable to find an answer to why I can't do something that should be quite simple. :( I've found documentation for how to do it using Docbook 4.x (and had no luck using it with Docbook 5), but it *seems* like a good

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-14 Thread Kells Kearney
. Dick Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kells Kearney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:13 PM To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long) I've taken a look through the e-mail archives, and I've

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-16 Thread Kells Kearney
15 years ago! :), but there a number of compelling advantages (IMO) to using Docbook. (I think! :) Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kells Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Tuesday, March 13

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-17 Thread Kells Kearney
I have to apologize to both Dave and Bob, but they've given me far too much credit for understanding. :) I'm hoping that I can impose on your patience for just a little longer. On 3/17/07, Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Stayton wrote: Do you know of a good step-by-step

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-31 Thread Kells Kearney
On 3/17/07, Chris Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I hate the reading, especially when I don't know exactly what I need to find. Experience: What you get after you needed it. /snip Oh boy, did this experience ever hurt. :( After a fair amount of reading and experimentation, I

Re: [docbook] Callout, footnotes, annotations.

2007-04-02 Thread Kells Kearney
This might be a little late, but it was an interesting problem that I had to delay until I could get around to looking at it again. Taking a little bit of time to learn SVG helped, too. :) This example definitely needs some work to get your text exactly right, and it's very crude in the

Re: [docbook-apps] Stripping comments

2007-03-30 Thread Kells Kearney
Here's a quick perl solution that doesn't read everything into memory and seems to handle some of the edge cases. Try it out on a few things to verify that everything is okay before completely trusting it, though. :) Copy the lines between '' into a file (say

Re: [docbook-apps] releaseinfo not showing in PDF

2007-04-02 Thread Kells Kearney
On 4/2/07, Mykone Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List. I have releaseinfoRELEASE INFO/releaseinfo under book\bookinfo but it's not showing up in PDF. Am I doing something wrong? Just to clarify: you want the releaseinfo elements to show up on the page just after the the very first

Re: [docbook-apps] releaseinfo not showing in PDF

2007-04-02 Thread Kells Kearney
: I am using Docbook XSL 1.69.1 with Docbook XML 4.4 On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 15:42 -0600, Kells Kearney wrote: On 4/2/07, Mykone Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List. I have releaseinfoRELEASE INFO/releaseinfo under book\bookinfo but it's not showing up in PDF. Am I doing something

Re: [docbook-apps] releaseinfo not showing in PDF

2007-04-02 Thread Kells Kearney
to work. If the simple test does generate something with the release info, then you'll have to add content until you get to the point where things stop working and figure things out from there. :) kells On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 15:47 -0600, Kells Kearney wrote: Okay, then two follow-up questions

Re: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.93 throws exception when it encounters a graphic

2007-04-05 Thread Kells Kearney
I've got a Windows Docbook5 setup with xsltproc, XSL1.7.2 and fop 0.9.3 and things work okay for me -- at least with JPEGs, PNGs and GIFs. That's with both: graphic fileref=Graphics/niagara.jpg width=4.747in contentwidth=4.747in align=center / and mediaobject imageobject