Re: DOCBOOK: sgml vs xml

2003-03-10 Thread Yann Dirson
first convert SGML into XML. You can use tools like sx for > > this task. So basically, if you can afford a slightly more conplicated build process, Jirka just said "yes you can" :) > any idea what debian package might have this tool? It's available as "sg

Re: DOCBOOK: sgml vs xml

2003-03-10 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:02:27PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > > This is not true as well. Although it has been dormant for a long > > time, Openjade 1.3.1 and then 1.3.2 were released several months ago. > > Work is ongoing to incorporate the dev

Re: DOCBOOK: sgml vs xml

2003-03-07 Thread Yann Dirson
he full-fledged page-sequence model, which will allow fancy things like lexible multi-columning, marginalia, etc. Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior F

Re: DOCBOOK: Altova AUTHENTIC - is now Free

2003-03-03 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:33:05PM +0300, Alexander Voropay wrote: > Is seems, this file isn't copyrigted, so you could use it as you > want. Hm. IIRC if there is no explicit statement that you can use it as you like, by default you can't legally do anything with it... -- Yan

Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]

2003-02-20 Thread Yann Dirson
s of the element was written, not necessarily how it has to be typeset, right ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant

Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]

2003-02-19 Thread Yann Dirson
wish to provide a suggestion, but it looks to me like > our target output formats both support such elements and attributes, > so it probably makes sense for our DTD to do likewise. Well, XSL-FO is completely layout-oriented, and HTML is still striving to get away from layout-oriented stu

Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]

2003-02-19 Thread Yann Dirson
e value of the "lang" attribute, without adding anything new ? For special cases like the Hebrew numbers, what about going more semantic and provide a "number" element ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager

Re: DOCBOOK: exercises?

2003-02-05 Thread Yann Dirson
are you > developing your own? Other information required to help you include: - what stylesheets you're using (xsl or dsssl) - what toolchain you use Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsa

Re: DOCBOOK: Proposal to close RFE 660044: Controlling line numberingin verbatims

2003-02-03 Thread Yann Dirson
it indicates the > starting line number for that environment is one more than the > starting line number from the previous environment. Didn't you mean "one more than the _ending_ line number from the previous environment." -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PRO

Re: DOCBOOK: help with header and a footer

2003-01-13 Thread Yann Dirson
attempting to use those. This is a trial and error work, and in many cases I couldn't manage to do it. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consul

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

2002-11-29 Thread Yann Dirson
eas :) Maybe people already noticed the way images are currently handled in docbook is also on my list :) -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consu

Re: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (R FE613293)

2002-11-28 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Schlienger, Marc wrote: > What is dbhier.mod? That's one of the modules of the DTD, which defines elements for the document hierarchy (book, chapter, etc.). See part about DTD customisation in DocBook-TDG for this type of info. -- Yann Dirson

Re: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (R FE613293)

2002-11-28 Thread Yann Dirson
tc.? I > believe many people are trying DocBook for these purposes, not only for > Software Doc. DocBook could be a specific type of this GeneralDocBook. Maybe something like an easily-reusable core DTD, consisting of dbhier.mod and of general-purpose subset of the rest, with the "s

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

2002-11-28 Thread Yann Dirson
for comments such as this one. I think the >lack of responses isn't really an indication of lack of interest-- >but maybe just an indication that not enough people realize that >there opinions on these issues aren't of much value. So, let me >reassure you: y

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Missing a section element without a title

2002-09-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:33:22AM -0700, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | I got a user request recently, of being able to group paragraphs in a > | logical way, but without a title. Usual rendering would just add more > | int

Re: DOCBOOK: SGML or XML newbie questions

2002-09-20 Thread Yann Dirson
ook-dsssl doc. Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: DOCBOOK: The best way to 'include' parts of a DocBook

2002-09-10 Thread Yann Dirson
all your entity defns and references in a single file (say "entities.ent"), and just referencing this one from your master doc. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senio

DOCBOOK: Missing a section element without a title

2002-09-09 Thread Yann Dirson
ith such a solution. I was originally thinking about just using and making its optional. But then we it would allow a and to contain both simplects with and without a title, which is probably not what we want. So this would require yet another section-class element ? -- Yann Dirson <[EM

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-09 Thread Yann Dirson
eric elements in the core DTD, and define architectural mappings of module elements into the core DTD, so that domain-specific processors need only know about their own module, even if other modules are used. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technica

Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-06 Thread Yann Dirson
That should allow current dtd-aware authoring tools to provide a more accurate environement, while still allowing to use standard stylesheets. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance t

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex

2002-09-02 Thread Yann Dirson
getting it. Using it with xsltproc, I got a number of parse errors in the LaTeX output. Ramon, you can consider this to be a bug-report, we can handle this off-list :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager

Re: DOCBOOK: qoute and entity question

2002-08-22 Thread Yann Dirson
nt (bb|[^b]{2}) ? > 2. the lame qoustion. There are 2 symbols like minus sign, a short > one and a long one. so what is the name of these entities? 3 of them indeed: ndash, ndash, and mdash. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical suppor

Re: DOCBOOK: embedded image in RTF

2002-08-20 Thread Yann Dirson
this via > OpenOffice which has a java API. So I tried opening and saving in StarOffice, > but here the images are not embedded after saving. So this way is not > working... FWIW, PatheticWriter (the wp from the SiagOffice suite) can do some RTF stuff - maybe it could help you ? -- Yann Dirson

Re: DOCBOOK: Problem with PDF formatting

2002-08-20 Thread Yann Dirson
plicitly identifying the level. > > Is this a bug? Does anyone know anything about this behaviour? There are/were some problems with the level in pdf bookmarks in the dsssl stylesheets, some of which should have been addressed already. What version of the stylesheets are you using ? --

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 20 Aug 2002

2002-08-19 Thread Yann Dirson
group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid= Er... This URL does not really work, I'm afraid there is a stylesheet bug, as well as an extraneous semicolon :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager

DOCBOOK: Re: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-08-19 Thread Yann Dirson
ngle-page compact version (selected by a stylesheet parameter), but I'm not happy with it yet. XML and PDF: http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/ stylesheet: https://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/alcovebook/alcovebook-sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/print/refcard.dsl?rev=HEAD&a

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-14 Thread Yann Dirson
hive this in docbook? (And yes, I realize this is a presentation > issue). The "role" attribute is here for that. You can use for example and . You'll probably want to write a customisation layer above the stylesheets, for example to change the "class" attribute in the

Re: DOCBOOK: no line break between media objects

2002-08-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:18:20PM +0200, Stefan Kuhn wrote: > I'm looking for a way to arrange a table and two media objects in a line, i. > e. without a line break. "mediaobject" is a block element. You should use "inlinemediaobject" for this. --

Re: DOCBOOK: Defining ENTITYs in nested entity files

2002-08-13 Thread Yann Dirson
nts to be valid), this requires to extend the DTD. There is an example of this (based on the 3.1 DTD) in the docbook-dsssl source, under contrib/subdoc/, but it is quite rough (see limitations in subdoc.dsl). -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.co

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-08-02 Thread Yann Dirson
r specific > markup" might contain the same element. This one is currently in "technical markup", "Operating System", "synopsis" > not a big deal, just an observation that sometimes a single element > can be viewed from a couple differ

Re: DOCBOOK: curious about attribute default on

2002-08-01 Thread Yann Dirson
d usually that the stylesheet may infer a "default" value from the context, based on described processing expectations if any. Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance

Re: DOCBOOK: DSSSL or XSL

2002-07-31 Thread Yann Dirson
p://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/ -> html.zip and dsssl*.pdf HTH, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant sen

Re: DOCBOOK: DSSSL or XSL

2002-07-31 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:51:43PM +0100, Mário Filipe wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 15:36, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > I'd say it depends on your needs - if you give more details we'll be > > able to give a better answer. > > Here are some of the requirem

Re: DOCBOOK: DSSSL or XSL

2002-07-31 Thread Yann Dirson
too complex (eg. multicolumn changes within a page, images within headers/footers) this may unfortunately not suit your needs. OTOH, the general opinion usually expressed on this list is that the XSL toolchains to produce printed output are less mature than the DSSSL one. Regards, -- Ya

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: itemized list within or after ??

2002-07-31 Thread Yann Dirson
or psgml, as it decides not to do automatic indentation of the list starttag then. But that may be more a bug than itended behaviour... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance tec

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-07-31 Thread Yann Dirson
to the reference pages would be damn useful as well. The DSSSL stylesheet I wrote to format TDG does produce hyperlinks here (and, indeed, does produce hyperlinks for every occurence of a SGMLTAG in the document). I don't think I publicized this stylesheet on this list - it's short enough, pl

Re: DOCBOOK: another markup question -- multi-level exercises

2002-07-29 Thread Yann Dirson
rabic/loweralpha specifically ? When refering to those items you should be using which will display whatever numbering was assigned... Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de

Re: DOCBOOK: Uniq values of "ID" attributes

2002-07-29 Thread Yann Dirson
t exist in >current edition ? "id" may be visible after join of documents. > > No. Its an error if the id does not exist at parse time. AFAIK this a generic SGML issue. If you have IDREFs refering to unexisting IDs your doc is not valid, whatever DTD you use. Regards

Re: DOCBOOK: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-07-29 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 06:09:04AM -0700, Dave Pawson wrote: > I think that would make a very useful addition to the documentation. Even a good one for tdg itself... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerRespo

Re: DOCBOOK: tdg translation

2002-07-23 Thread Yann Dirson
would download it [cvs takes a magic wand] > and put it on a web site for you? I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect many files in the CVS tree to be generated ones. Maybe looking at the makefiles would tell which ones, otherwise probably only Norm knows :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson &l

Re: DOCBOOK: font style

2002-07-12 Thread Yann Dirson
This is already done in the standard stylesheets. is rendered in italics, and is rendered as bold. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consulta

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
nd we're usually trying to stop users to think about the layout, when they write their document... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 07:43:38AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | How do people feel would relate to and ? > > You might sell me on deprecating remark in favor of a class of > annotation, but I think footnote should st

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
ss an element with another element, that would make things much clearer... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
ally good ideas. The problem with putting hrefs in them seems to require such kind of mechanism... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of theproposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
n. It shouldn't be that hard to do the same for marginalia, until Cristian has finished his work on implementing full page-sequence semantics (see recent dsssllist archives). -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
ybe footnotes could be made the default processing for , and some annotation classes (eg. editorial comments) would be possible to render as marginalia. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assis

Re: DOCBOOK: Marginalia

2002-06-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:21:06AM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > It seems to me that marginal notes are an example of where it's hard to > separate logical structure from presentation. Why do you think so ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http

Re: DOCBOOK: README

2002-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
d be done with the web server here, just like what the FTP ASCII mode already does. I guess FTP access would solve the problem ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique

Re: DOCBOOK: README

2002-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
less supplementary that inherit the algorithm of mechanic typewriters :) Maybe the best solution would be to provide a README.msdos with the legacy linefeeds ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l

Re: DOCBOOK: Placement of info wrappers

2002-06-13 Thread Yann Dirson
block to hold other stuff. What do you think ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debi

Re: DOCBOOK: Announce again: Updated The Definitive Guide published

2002-06-13 Thread Yann Dirson
is file is not in CVS... It may be worth checkin in an ebnf-4.2CR.dtd, and "cvs rm" it when 4.2 gets released ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Soft

Re: DOCBOOK: keeping original html markup in final documents

2002-05-31 Thread Yann Dirson
it. If you use the correct public Id, and the forms module is correctly installed (registerd in catalog), it should be found automatically. Don't forget the "-d ...stylesheet.dsl" on thecommand-line -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Tech

Re: DOCBOOK: keeping original html markup in final documents

2002-05-31 Thread Yann Dirson
use an XML-aware jade wrapper that will do that for you (sgml2x does, I suppose docbook-utils does as well). -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Sof

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Urgent: user experience with 4.2CR1?

2002-04-29 Thread Yann Dirson
well be the tool itself. The code is available from CVS, in the perlsgml project at Savannah.gnu.org. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consul

DOCBOOK: Towards a semantic table-model

2002-04-29 Thread Yann Dirson
where table models are discussed on this list. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian d

Re: DOCBOOK: Numbered Section Headers

2002-04-25 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:12:32AM -0700, Carlos wrote: > Do you have these customizations available for XML/XSL docbook? No. > Are there a > lot of changes to be made to convert them to valid XSL stylesheets? Yes, that's completely different stuff, sorry. -- Yann Dirson <

Re: DOCBOOK: Numbered Section Headers

2002-04-25 Thread Yann Dirson
useful stuff. http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/alcovebook/alcovebook-sgml-0.1.0.tar.gz -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant

Re: DOCBOOK: Formatting problems

2002-04-22 Thread Yann Dirson
n) > Author1 Author2 Author3 > (1column) > Abstract > (2columns) > Body of paper For the authors stuff, you should be able to get something working using a table. That would make ncolumn-switching unnecessary here. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: DOCBOOK: Image scaling issues with DocBook

2002-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
agedata attributes, that will be available in DocBook 4.2 (already in a release-candidate). AFAIK, however, the stylesheets were not updated yet to use them. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l&#x

Re: DOCBOOK: revhistory not rendered, customization

2002-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
de article-titlepage-verso-mode (element revhistory ($revhistory-table$)) (element (revhistory revision) ($revhistory-table-revision$))) See: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/alcovebook/ -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical

Re: DOCBOOK: howto add icons to para

2002-03-26 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:15:32AM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote: > Try using a role on a note and tweeking the > stylesheet As the stylesheets will need to be tweeked anyway, I suggest to use the role attribute on itself. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: class extends superclass

2002-03-22 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:14:03AM -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Interfaces are trickier, mostly because they're really Java-specific, For the record, interfaces are not java-specific. At least Objective-C has this concept - and this predates Java by nearly a decade :) -- Yan

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook filename extension

2002-02-19 Thread Yann Dirson
*not* embedded in the file. This basically means that most legacy filesystems will not store them, and most legacy tools will strip them, even when transfering across filesystems that support them. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support ma

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook filename extension

2002-02-12 Thread Yann Dirson
convenient for suffix-based (eg. Makefile) rules. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics

2002-02-08 Thread Yann Dirson
isions for > you). Some part of the system (the FO processor) will eventually be > able to tell how big the image actually is (unless it's a format the > processor doesn't understand, in which case it isn't going to work > anyway) and do the right thing. OK, I see wha

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics

2002-02-08 Thread Yann Dirson
stands for my "viewportwidth", "contentwidth" stands for my "reproductionwidth", and we have nothing for my "physicalwidth". Right ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics

2002-02-08 Thread Yann Dirson
the area in which the image is to be reproduced reproductionwidth the effective width of the image If I understand well, in the current proposal "width" stands for my "reproductionwidth", "contentwidth" stands for my "physicalwidth", and we have n

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics

2002-02-07 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:43:24AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > and added a demo at > > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/proposals/graphicatts/demo.html Cool, that helps to understand what you mean. > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | On Wed,

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics

2002-02-06 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > |> I propose that we add four additional attributes to DocBook graphic > |> elements

Re: DOCBOOK: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBook graphics

2002-02-06 Thread Yann Dirson
or "right"). > > valign > If the scaled content size is shorter than the specified depth, > the image will be aligned within the depth according to this value > (one of "top", "middle", or "bottom"). I feel like th

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 440667: Remove corpname

2002-02-06 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:43:26AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:37:53PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > SPI (spi-inc.org) is the (US) non-profit org that was created to serve > > as a legal frontend. It now also "hosts" Gnome, Berlin,

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 440667: Remove corpname

2002-02-06 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:14:50AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | With definitions something like: > | > | nonprofit an organisation with a non-profit legal status under > | some law (eg. under French law

Re: DOCBOOK: RFE 440667: Remove corpname

2002-02-06 Thread Yann Dirson
s are using DocBook, and they would fall in the "other" category instead. With definitions something like: nonprofit an organisation with a non-profit legal status under some law (eg. under French law "association loi 1901") informalan organisation w

Re: DOCBOOK: Customization and classes

2002-01-30 Thread Yann Dirson
ac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/perlSGML.html There is a modified version at: http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/HTML_Spec/html.html with examples of output, like: http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/HTML_Spec/html401-strict/DTD-HOME.html -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> htt

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Image scaling

2002-01-24 Thread Yann Dirson
ylesheets implement this already I suppose. > Furthermore, it seems like you'd also have some number of people > writing document-specific stylesheet components, which essentially > implement the out-of-band formatting I was describing. Maybe. Finally, I've no real opinion ab

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Image scaling

2002-01-17 Thread Yann Dirson
ed. Hm, I feel using english descriptions (such as "with aspect ration as defined from width and depth", or such) would somewhat clarify your expectations. But maybe that's just me :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-

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

2002-01-16 Thread Yann Dirson
y scaled depth) of > 100% of the available area. (What constitutes the available area > depends on the context, of course. In print, it would usually be the > column width.) OK that's fine with me - except I feel that `width="100%" scalefit="1"' shoul

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 15 Jan 2002

2002-01-16 Thread Yann Dirson
yout-oriented. I guess that all of them should be handled by the stylesheet, at least as far as printed output is concerned. For HTML output, I'm afraid that could cause some problems, but the complexity of the solution does not change the problem IMHO. Opinions ? -- Yann Dirson

Re: DOCBOOK: Merging meta info wrappers

2002-01-16 Thread Yann Dirson
resolve the problem for those wanting to make use of selective changes. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatiqu

Re: DOCBOOK: Adding metainfo to more places

2002-01-16 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:37:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > Our plan of record is to add a single new *info element (and not > EquationInfo, ExampleInfo, etc.). Suggestions for the name of this > single info element are also solicited. MetaInfo ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMA

Re: DOCBOOK: Autonumbering Table Column

2002-01-15 Thread Yann Dirson
in the stylesheet of the additional column. That will require a customisation layer. HTH, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsa

Re: DOCBOOK: What should a look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Yann Dirson
you would need to define a new flow object, that rely on the post-processor (eg. jadetex) to find the replacement text for each page. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Fr

Re: DOCBOOK: What should a look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Yann Dirson
ample that should be rendered as marginalia, as footnote, and as endnote. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du te

Re: DOCBOOK: What should a look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Yann Dirson
ing of this note shall produce one or the other layout object is a matter style. OTOH, I does raise a question about the name - it is the name of a layout item, not of a semantic item, as already shown by the "end notes" rendering. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DOCBOOK: What should a look like?

2001-12-18 Thread Yann Dirson
id. OTOH, it can be seen as a rendering issues of the page-footnote flow-objects passed to jadetex (they are an extention over DSSSL), and maybe a small piece of TeX wizardry in a jadetex.cfg could put them into the margin. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: [Doc-SIG] Docbook "user exit"?

2001-12-17 Thread Yann Dirson
e ? This way we would use already existing rendering code... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: [Doc-SIG] Docbook "user exit"?

2001-12-14 Thread Yann Dirson
it's a thing I'll need anyway), so you > could pre-process sources and then include them as entities. Sorry to ask - what's yours ? Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer

DOCBOOK: Re: XML Schemas and docbook documents

2001-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:18:23AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | In other words, I was thinking of extending the syntax of attributes > | so that we could write: > | > | | whitepaper > > I've seen t

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: XML Schemas and docbook documents

2001-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
amental problem here, in that something that isn't really an attribute should not use attribute syntax... This looks more like an abuse, that was made possible by XML's ability to cope with non-declared stuff, than a structurally thought-out approach - but I confess I don

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: RFE 472229: Allow HTML Tables in DocBook

2001-12-06 Thread Yann Dirson
the table model used by Amaya to better suit CALS - which should not be difficult either. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for Ant/Makefile Targets

2001-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
sing yourself. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for Ant/Makefile Targets

2001-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:58:47AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > What tag should be used for marking up Ant (a Java-based build tool > similar to make) or Makefile targets? (Simply using seems a bit > too general to me.) ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Environment Variables in File/Directory Names

2001-11-21 Thread Yann Dirson
agments, and TOMCAT_HOME in descriptive texts ? Would it make sense to add such "known values" to envvar's class attribute ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel

Re: DOCBOOK: listitem

2001-11-20 Thread Yann Dirson
eak the structure IMHO. What you want is more probably a title for the element contained in the listitem. What elements do you put in there ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libr

Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for Daemon Names

2001-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:15:33PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Is there something more specific than for marking up names of > daemon names? (I would like to know this since I'm writing documentation > on system administration). or depending on the context ? -- Yann

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

2001-11-16 Thread Yann Dirson
utside of the current document, which is a > very powerful new feature. Right, I did not think of the issue Norm raised about XInclude'd sub-docs. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer

Re: DOCBOOK: SGML Page Header/Footers Syntax

2001-11-15 Thread Yann Dirson
of each > Page etc) These are presentation issues, handled by the stylesheets. This is more in the scope of the docbook-apps mailing-list. You have to write a customisation layer for the stylesheets. See http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/doc/ -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECT

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

2001-11-15 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:58:45PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > > 2. "xlink:href" is, well, much less sexy than "linkend", and the name > > does not really reflect the semantics attached to the attribute as > > much as "linke

Re: DOCBOOK: Names/XLink customization layer

2001-11-15 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:13:33AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > > What about instead: That would allow just to use %xlink-prefix; in subsequent defs. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer

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