Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with olink

2001-12-07 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Bob, Attached to this email you will find the generated .olink file. Again, thanks for your help. Gius_. On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 19:01, Bob Stayton wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:06:30PM +0100, Giuseppe Greco wrote: hi, Despite I use the olink module as described by Norm, I always

DOCBOOK-APPS: How can I customize the column width in a table?

2001-12-07 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Hi, I would like to customize the column width in a table. Reading the DocBook Guide, I understood that I have to use a span. OK, but for me it is unclear how... The default column width is OK for HTML output, since it is adjusted to the longer string; However, on printed output, the column

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with olink

2001-12-07 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Exactly, I wanted to olink glossary entries. So, if I've well understood, the only way ot solve my problem would be to write my own olink.dsl, isn't it? By the way, Bob, thank you very much for your help! Have a nice day. Gius_. On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 09:47, Bob Stayton wrote: On Fri, Dec

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XML_CATALOG_FILES

2001-12-07 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:44:22AM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: I'm using XML catalogs with xsltproc with some success. If I set the env variable XML_CATALOG_FILES to the pathname of an XML catalog file, it works very nicely. Thanks! But I interpret the S on the end of the env variable name

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Jirka Kosek
Norman Walsh wrote: With respect, I think that's abuse of the alt tag. Might I suggest instead supporting this with: I don't want abuse alt. But from my reading of alt element description in TDG: Description A text (or other nonvisual) description of a graphical element. This is

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Jirka Kosek
Ed Nixon wrote: At 11:30 AM 07/12/2001 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: snip I think that I'm understand you point there. But if someone wants to read document with many equations he will probably have graphical client and will be able to see equations as images and won't need text alternative

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Peter Ring
It's to some extent a matter of opinion whether an equation in LaTeX markup is suitable for immediate human consumption. Most mathematicians that typeset math papers and exchange math by email will be familiar with the notation and will be able to read a bit of LaTeX; there is, to the best of my

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Ed Nixon
At 02:32 PM 07/12/2001 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: snip OK. But what is the defference between E=mc square and E=mc^2 when synthetised by some reader tool? I have no personal experience with such tools, so may be I'm missing something. Using TeX equation in alt element means that this TeX version

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: html cosmetics

2001-12-07 Thread David Cramer
Best to do that with css. Assuming you're using xsl, in your customization layer either point to a .css file: xsl:param name='html.stylesheet' select='your.css'/ Or embed the css directly in each html page (handy if you want to email the html file as if it were a .doc): xsl:template

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:32 07/12/2001 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: OK. But what is the defference between E=mc square and E=mc^2 when synthetised by some reader tool? I have no personal experience with such tools, so may be I'm missing something. Using TeX equation in alt element means that this TeX version of

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 08:57 07/12/2001 -0500, Ed Nixon wrote: Wouldn't it be useful to think about doing the same thing? Or something similar for accessibility purposes? Yep, but for N America or the UK, its a pig of a task. Regards DaveP

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using profile.xsl to filter conditionalized documents

2001-12-07 Thread David Cramer
Denis, Something like this (untested)? xsl:variable name=os.ok select= not(@os) or not($os) or contains(concat($sep, @os, $sep), concat($sep, $os, $sep)) or (contains(concat($sep, @os, $sep), concat($sep, 'mac', $sep)) or

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using profile.xsl to filter conditionalized documents

2001-12-07 Thread Bradford, Denis
From: David Cramer Something like this (untested)? xsl:variable name=os.ok select= not(@os) or not($os) or contains(concat($sep, @os, $sep), concat($sep, $os, $sep)) or (contains(concat($sep, @os, $sep), concat($sep, 'mac', $sep))

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using profile.xsl to filter conditionalized documents

2001-12-07 Thread Bradford, Denis
Fantastic. Tested it; it works! Send me that 700 USD bill, Jirka! Thanks, Denis -Original Message- From: Jirka Kosek Fixed in CVS. If you grab latest version of profile.xsl from CVS, you can specify multiple targets in one parameter, e.g: saxon -o xsample.xml sample.xml