Re: [docbook] Callout, footnotes, annotations.

2007-03-19 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:45:07AM EST, Dave Pawson wrote: cga2000 wrote: can imagine creating alternative output of callouts using SVG to draw connecting arrows instead bulleted numbers. That's (vaguely) what I had in mind .. clean arrows, rather than these ugly hyphens .. etc. But I

Re: [docbook] Alternate CSS stylesheets.

2007-03-11 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:41:23AM EST, Jirka Kosek wrote: cga2000 wrote: Would anyone know whether I can use the same strategy to specify alternate css stylesheets that I can switch to on the fly while browsing the html document? Or do I need to specify the alternate CSS style

Re: [docbook] Alternate CSS stylesheets.

2007-03-11 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:45:31PM EST, Jirka Kosek wrote: cga2000 wrote: Naturally, it could be just a syntax error in my coding. I don't know XSL so I'm just guessing. Then you should start by learning at least basics of XSLT and how to use it to customize XSL stylesheets: http

[docbook] Alternate CSS stylesheets.

2007-03-10 Thread cga2000
I currently use the following XSL fragment to include a css stylesheet in the resulting html documents: - ?xml version='1.0'? xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform;

Re: [docbook] DocBook showcase?

2007-03-06 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:09:21PM EST, Chris Chiasson wrote: How long are these text files? One-pagers mostly. Some a bit longer and some shorter. But I'm not planning on any kind of mass-conversion. The way I organized my documentation was that when I felt it was time to document a

[docbook] DocBook showcase?

2007-03-05 Thread cga2000
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] xmlto pdf command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debian system.

2007-03-02 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:40:05AM EST, cga2000 wrote: Just to let you know that I fired up my etch system .. and installed everything that looked like it might be relevant to docbook/xml. I installed fop, and this pulled in the necessary java components. I proceeded to issue the following

Re: [docbook] Re: [SPAM] [docbook] xmlto pdf command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debian system.

2007-03-01 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:58:20AM EST, Vincent Hennebert wrote: 'cga2000' a écrit : On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:26:19AM EST, Hinrich Aue wrote: I don't much about latex with docbook, but I think that using FOP is the better way. Did you try FOP? Yes, this post was already rather

Re: [docbook] Re: [SPAM] [docbook] xmlto pdf command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debian system.

2007-03-01 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:58:20AM EST, Vincent Hennebert wrote: [-snip-] And, BTW, you will have much better results if you render your DocBook documents into PDF with the latest FOP 0.93 version. Much appreciated. I'll keep that in mind for when my docs are mature enough to be published.

Re: [docbook] xmlto pdf command fails in TeX/LaTeX step on debian system.

2007-02-28 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:31:59AM EST, Jirka Kosek wrote: cga2000 wrote: I started playing with DocBook over the weekend and while the xmlto html and xmlto html-nochunks commands worked absolutely fine from the word go, the generation of pdf (or ps) documents does not function

[docbook] Difficulties subscribing.

2007-02-27 Thread cga2000
I am nor sure where I should report this since this list is for general DocBook questions and not mailing lists issues but I would like to mention the fact that the procedure to subscribe to the list as described at: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/mailinglist/ .. did not work for me. As

Re: [docbook] Difficulties subscribing.

2007-02-27 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:46:55PM EST, cga2000 wrote: I am nor sure where I should report this since this list is for general DocBook questions and not mailing lists issues but I would like to mention the fact that the procedure to subscribe to the list as described at: http://www.oasis