DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone tested Framemaker 7 with Docbook XML?

2002-05-01 Thread Alexander Schatten
Framemaker 7 seems to be a very interesting upgrade in terms of XML support. Has anyone tested already importing / using docbook XML with Framemaker (and off course publishing using Framemaker) Thank you Alex

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Again: Apache FOP,Docbook: Features / Versions,complete Docbook distribution

2002-01-15 Thread Alexander Schatten
Kevin Conder wrote: Did you know there are several installation tutorials out there? For Windows, there's this page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ntsgml.html well, this is *SGML* for NT. I am not interested (as most) in SGML, as I am using

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Again: Apache FOP,Docbook: Features / Versions,complete Docbook distribution

2002-01-14 Thread Alexander Schatten
Bob Stayton wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:57:44PM +0100, Alexander Schatten wrote: This complete framework is SO complex to setup, I have never seen something like this before, especially when there is no documentation that explains the necessary steps in one document. currently I feel

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Again: Apache FOP,Docbook: Features / Versions,complete Docbook distribution

2002-01-14 Thread Alexander Schatten
Julien Letessier wrote: le 14/01/02 17:02, Alexander Schatten écrivit: the same here and in other similar projects: what I feel angry about is, that many of these projects suffer on two things: -- setup and installation -- documentation (snip) It's in the works... I've created a self

DOCBOOK-APPS: Again: Apache FOP, Docbook: Features / Versions,complete Docbook distribution

2002-01-13 Thread Alexander Schatten
Again: I did some extensive testing of different xsl stylesheet versions, my conclusions considering PDF production are (html works fine, btw): always using apache fop 0.20.2: docbook-xsl-1.47-experimental and docbook-xsl-1.48 does not work at all: [java] [ERROR]: property 'master-reference'

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Again: Apache FOP, Docbook: Features / Versions,complete Docbook distribution

2002-01-13 Thread Alexander Schatten
Julien Letessier wrote: He Ho. Already debated on the docbook-apps list. I don't blame you -- I asked too. some things were discussed, unfortunately nothing (I could find) that solved the relevant problems. The problem is that Fop is not XSL-1.0 conformant. Norman wrote a little patch

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Generating Indexes

2001-12-31 Thread Alexander Schatten
Norman Walsh wrote: The Guide doesn't describe any of the XSL tools. What do you find confusing about the description of indexterms or indexes? well, this may be part of the problem. I think there is a big demand in docbook, but the problem is, that most user want to write their

DOCBOOK-APPS: Ant Style task does not work with docbook xsl, why?

2001-12-31 Thread Alexander Schatten
I use ant build files for automatic publishing tasks which is _very_ useful. ant has a built-in style task that invoces xalan to make xsl transformations. it works with all xsl stylesheets I have written, but does not work with N. Walshs docbook (html) stylesheets. (with no error btw: the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Alexander Schatten
Jirka Kosek wrote: Alexander Schatten wrote: Use XML version of DocBook and XSL stylesheets. They are able to create index in a single pass without need for running separate support programs (like collateindex.pl). sorry for adding a question: I use the XSL stylesheets for HMTL production

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Alexander Schatten
Do you have something like following in place where you want index to appear? index titleMy superb index/title /index THANK YOU VERY MUCH! that was the (obvious) solution: nevertheless: unfortunately, this index thing is described _very_ confusing in the Doc Book - Definitive Guide

DOCBOOK-APPS: Producing Printable output from docbook... neverendingstory, this time: DSSSL

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Schatten
I dont know how frustrated others might be, but I am definitly. docbook seems to be very promising, but makes so many problems in nearly each detail. I managed to produce html output, even with images, but try to make printable (PDF) output. (1) as I am used to xsl, I tried the way using the