[docbook-apps] Gap between two tables within PDF

2007-04-03 Thread Kashif Shah
Hello, I have two tables one direct after the other. But between the two tables there is allways a gap of half a inch. . . /informaltable informaltable . . Does someone know which attribute has to be set to get rid of the gap? I tried a various, without success. Thanks Kashif -- View this

[docbook-apps] Converting from DocBook XML 4.4 to 5.0

2007-04-03 Thread Mykone Saunders
Is there a tool to convert DocBook 4.4 document to 5.0? Also, is there any advantage to convert to 5.0?

Re: [docbook-apps] Converting from DocBook XML 4.4 to 5.0

2007-04-03 Thread Jacques Foucry
On 3 avr. 07, at 16:28, Mykone Saunders wrote: Is there a tool to convert DocBook 4.4 document to 5.0? Also, is there any advantage to convert to 5.0? You can find a xslt with Docbook-5.0CR3 in the tools directory called db2-upgrade.xsl with db4-entities.pl perl script. I can't tell you

Re: [docbook-apps] Converting from DocBook XML 4.4 to 5.0

2007-04-03 Thread Jirka Kosek
Mykone Saunders wrote: Is there a tool to convert DocBook 4.4 document to 5.0? See http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#convert4to5 Also, is there any advantage to convert to 5.0? DocBook V4.5 is considered to be feature frozen. Any new developments (e.g. adding new elements supporting new

Re: [docbook-apps] Converting from DocBook XML 4.4 to 5.0

2007-04-03 Thread Mykone Saunders
I think i'll stay with 4.4 for now.. Too much stuff to convert in 5.0.. Plus I have to change my Editing environment in XML Metal Author. On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:07 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: Mykone Saunders wrote: Is there a tool to convert DocBook 4.4 document to 5.0? See

[docbook-apps] Dynamically creating an FO table based on content length

2007-04-03 Thread Colin Shapiro
Hi all, I have a problem which I can't think of a good way to solve. I realize that I am perhaps approaching this problem incorrectly, so I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Suppose that I have an arbitrary series of paragraphs in my source file, containing an arbitrary amount

Re: [docbook-apps] Gap between two tables within PDF

2007-04-03 Thread Bob Stayton
You could put use two tgroup elements inside one informaltable, rather than one informaltable. Then the output tables should join. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kashif Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[docbook-apps] [SPAM] Element type xsl:stylesheet must be declared.

2007-04-03 Thread Mike M
Hello all, I am attempting to process a docbook document using Xalan and the latest stylesheets (1.72.0), but I am receiving a stream of errors: [Error] autoidx.xsl:10:31: Element type xsl:stylesheet must be declared. [Error] autoidx.xsl:27:50: Element type xsl:variable must be declared.

RE: [docbook-apps] Dynamically creating an FO table based on content length

2007-04-03 Thread Nelson, Dean
This was something that I was wondering myself, just yesterday. I wanted to be able to do a list that had a certain height and would automatically wrap to the next column on the right when the height was exceeded. But atlas, this mere mortal failed and could not figure out how to do it with

Re: [docbook-apps] Dynamically creating an FO table based on content length

2007-04-03 Thread Colin Shapiro
Hi, Yes, this is similar to what I am trying to do. However, I don't believe that this is a DocBook-specific problem, or a shortcoming of the DocBook DTD / XSL distribution itself. I could be using my own custom DTD and I still wouldn't know how to write XSLT that can predict the physical

RE: [docbook-apps] Dynamically creating an FO table based on content length

2007-04-03 Thread Nelson, Dean
It seems that you could force that list to a multi-column block? Still, that would be a significant customization. Regards, Dean Nelson Enterprise Electronics Corp -Original Message- From: Colin Shapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03,