Re: [docbook-apps] inside adds white space in Firefox and IE?

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Hamilton
Thanks Bob, I'll give it a try and see what happens. Dick --- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamil...@xmlpress.net On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Bob Stayton wrote: > Actually, generate.id.attributes is alread set to 1 in the xhtml5 > stylesheet, which epub3

Re: [docbook-apps] inside adds white space in Firefox and IE?

2013-04-25 Thread Bob Stayton
Actually, generate.id.attributes is alread set to 1 in the xhtml5 stylesheet, which epub3 imports. It is not set to that value in epub2 because the generate.id.attributes param was not fully implemented in xhtml-1_1 when epub2 was being developed. I haven't tried it in epub2 in 1.78.1, but i

Re: [docbook-apps] inside adds white space in Firefox and IE?

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Hamilton
Hi Bob, Would you also recommend setting the same parameter for ePub (either 2 or 3)? Thanks, Dick --- XML Press XML for Technical Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamil...@xmlpress.net On Apr 25, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Eric, > You can ditch the named anchors by setti

Re: [docbook-apps] inside adds white space in Firefox and IE?

2013-04-25 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi Eric, You can ditch the named anchors by setting the stylesheet param 'generate.id.attributes' to 1. That will add an id to the instead of adding an named anchor after it. Now that ids are fully supported in browsers, and version 1.78 fully implements that parameter, this should probably b

Re: [docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread Edwin Aldridge
There too much effort going towards misunderstanding here. Cancel the question, guys. On 25 April 2013 17:09, Carlos Araya wrote: > Edwin, > > It is all in how the document is structured. I've built very technical > documents for audiences like yours using Docbook and the feedback has been >

Re: [docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread Carlos Araya
Edwin, It is all in how the document is structured. I've built very technical documents for audiences like yours using Docbook and the feedback has been consistently positive. You can add a lot of the functionality you want without having to change the way that the stock stylesheets handle the H

Re: [docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread Edwin Aldridge
Thanks for this response and anything you can dig up would be welcome. My question really comes less from matters of styling (and yes, CSS is undoubtedly brilliant) than from information structure and an interest in how technical audiences (which is my type of audience) use web sites for informat

Re: [docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread David Goss
Personally, I think docbook's HTML output can be very aesthetically pleasing, and so well designed that the sky is the limit with CSS. It's also technologically pleasing, displaying well in my browser of choice (elinks). In my antiquated opinion, web pages are documents, not applications. For ou

Re: [docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread davep
On 25/04/13 10:56, Edwin Aldridge wrote: I am writing a set of docbook articles which I would like presented on the web but I find the HTML and XHTML formats really clunky. Aesthetics asice, they certainly do not take advantage of the medium's capabilities and am looking for something a bit smart

[docbook-apps] Ajax HTML format wanted

2013-04-25 Thread Edwin Aldridge
I am writing a set of docbook articles which I would like presented on the web but I find the HTML and XHTML formats really clunky. Aesthetics asice, they certainly do not take advantage of the medium's capabilities and am looking for something a bit smarter. Does anyone know of, or would anyone b

Re: [docbook-apps] inside adds white space in Firefox and IE?

2013-04-25 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi Eric, On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 06:29 +, Eric Nordlund wrote: > It's almost as if the tag is pushing the down. I guess that's it – I am not sure what the tag is interpreted as, but the is interpreted as a block element. This means it tries to take up all available horizontal space. Thus,