Re: Re: [docbook-apps] callout.unicode.font question

2010-07-18 Thread Thomas Schraitle
Monday 12 July 2010 On 9 juil. 2010, at 18:56, David Cramer wrote: I found the way to custom callout.xsl and it works. But the font I found is not so beautiful as I expected :-( You could try Linux Libertine, maybe you like it: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ It has callouts

[docbook-apps] article / info / author / address - how do I make it appear?

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
I searched Bob's book for that (paper and online), but to no success. I wrote a little document, and it's necessary, that it shows my address. Any pointer pls? Kind regards, J. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [docbook-apps] article / info / author / address - how do I make it appear?

2010-07-18 Thread Denis Bradford
Hi Jochen According to 'DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide' (http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/info.html), article/info is not designed to appear in output: == Description The info element contains meta-information about the element that contains it. Processing

RE: [docbook-apps] article / info / author / address - how do I make it appear?

2010-07-18 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name | | I searched Bob's book for that (paper and online), | but to no success. | | I wrote a little document, | and it's necessary, that it shows my address. | | Any pointer pls? The stuff inside info is part of the

Re: [docbook-apps] article / info / author / address - how do I make it appear?

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Denis Bradford writes: Hi Jochen Hi, Denis, you are my diligent tutor! Thanks a lot for that! According to 'DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide' (http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/info.html), article/info is not designed to appear in output: Well, if it comes to processing and output

[docbook-apps] blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
So far I have been blogging on a couple of blogger.com blogs of mine, and I got quite used to the capabilities there, I mean WYSIWYG is not that disgusting, even for an open-minded emacs guy as me, but then … … maybe there has already been an attempt to use DocBook for blogging? I mean, *what*

RE: [docbook-apps] blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Robert Lucente
We have to be very conscious of who is the intended audiance. Warning pontification: You can't be everything to everybody. Creating DocBook XML and then getting the processing chain to work to convert XML to HTML and then screwing around to get something to look exactly the way you want it to in

[docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Robert Lucente writes: We have to be very conscious of who is the intended audiance. Warning pontification: You can't be everything to everybody. Creating DocBook XML and then getting the processing chain to work to convert XML to HTML and then screwing around to get something to look

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Robert Lucente
And IMHO DocBook output *is* nice. Ooops. Did not mean to imply otherwise. O'Reilly books (all/some/a few?!?) are written in DocBook Yes, I am aware. Please note that O'Reilly focuses on the tech market. Maybe blogging sharing would get far more often done, if the means were easier. Please name

Re: [docbook-apps] blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Dave Pawson
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:43:20 +0200 jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name wrote: So far I have been blogging on a couple of blogger.com blogs of mine, and I got quite used to the capabilities there, I mean WYSIWYG is not that disgusting, even for an open-minded emacs guy as me, but then … … maybe

[docbook-apps] DocBook/XSL/FO-HTML and Table Column Widths

2010-07-18 Thread Tom Browder
I have pretty much converted an old, large html-based set of docs into DocBook 5. The only chunk I'm not happy with are the tables which need customizing to adjust column widths. Adjusting the column widths seems problematic at the moment for one using xsltproc. I see that Norm Walsh has a

RE: [docbook-apps] How to Adjust Table Column Widths with xsltproc

2010-07-18 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: Tom Browder | | How can I affect table column widths with the current db 5, xsltproc, | and fop tool chain without hand modifying the fo file? Are you sure that you really need to adjust column widths? That is not supposed to be necessary for FO output

[docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Robert Lucente writes: And IMHO DocBook output *is* nice. Ooops. Did not mean to imply otherwise. O'Reilly books (all/some/a few?!?) are written in DocBook Yes, I am aware. Please note that O'Reilly focuses on the tech market. That's O'Reilly, not necessarily you and me. *** THIS IS NOT

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Robert Lucente
I think that the various perspectives have been adequately presented and each user must decide for themselves what is the appropriate tool to use. -Original Message- From: jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name [mailto:jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name] Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:51 AM To:

[docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Dave Pawson writes: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:43:20 +0200 Jochen Hayek wrote: So far I have been blogging on a couple of blogger.com blogs of mine, and I got quite used to the capabilities there, I mean WYSIWYG is not that disgusting, even for an open-minded emacs guy as me, but then … …

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook/XSL/FO-HTML and Table Column Widths

2010-07-18 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi Tom, First question: was there any column width information in the HTML tables from which you converted that content? If so, ensuring that the conversion included the column widths would likely help. The column widths stylesheet extension is not going to help you if your tables have no

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook/XSL/FO-HTML and Table Column Widths

2010-07-18 Thread Steve Johnson
Off the subject but is there a way to stop FO from breaking a row in the middle? IOW, to push an entire row to the next page? Thanks On 7/18/2010 11:03 AM, Bob Stayton wrote: Hi Tom, First question: was there any column width information in the HTML tables from which you converted that

RE: [docbook-apps] blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name | | So far I have been blogging on a couple of blogger.com | blogs of mine, | and I got quite used to the capabilities there, | I mean WYSIWYG is not that disgusting, even for an | open-minded emacs guy as me, | but

[docbook-apps] Re: article / info / author / address - how do I make it appear?

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Mauritz Jeanson writes: | -Original Message- | From: jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name | | I searched Bob's book for that (paper and online), | but to no success. | | I wrote a little document, | and it's necessary, that it shows my address. | | Any pointer pls? The stuff

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Dave Pawson
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:01:37 +0200 jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name wrote: Just to make sure: there is no DocBook envolved at all? I would love to see DocBook at the core. Not sure how it would help with Atom? Perhaps to create the inserted html? And you regard the file format, that embraces

[docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Dave Pawson da...@dpawson.co.uk writes: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:01:37 +0200 jochen+oasis-o...@hayek.name wrote: Just to make sure: there is no DocBook envolved at all? I would love to see DocBook at the core. Not sure how it would help with Atom? Perhaps to create the inserted html? I

[docbook-apps] Re: blogging using DocBook articles or so ...

2010-07-18 Thread Jochen+oasis-open
Dave Pawson writes: […] Not docbook, but I've been generating atom blog entries for some time now. Each entry a different file (by date, then date.1 etc) Bit of python to get the xml file list, XSLT to generate html + toc XSLT to generate the full atom feed. It's worked for about 5

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook/XSL/FO-HTML and Table Column Widths

2010-07-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:03, Bob Stayton b...@sagehill.net wrote: Hi Tom, First question: was there any column width information in the HTML tables from which you converted that content?  If so, ensuring that the conversion included the column widths would likely help. Yes, there was: