RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook - pdf

2002-10-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:12 14/10/2002, Jeff Beal wrote: (Does anyone have a tutorial on navigating the plethora of DocBook tutorials yet?) Good point Jeff. they are getting rather profuse and widespread. Suggestions how to join/link/merge or otherwise make them more cohesive? regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: conditionalization of XML

2002-10-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:33 11/10/2002, Daniel Veillard wrote: I don't affirm or deny anything w.r.t. conditionalization needs. I'm just stating my position as the guys who implement and maintain the friggin' code, okay ! Corr, he's a bad tempered old b isn't he :-) I'm not convinced that one need acces

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: keep-with-previous and block things inside of paras

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:18 08/10/2002, David Cramer wrote: XEP 2.7x, but these aren't floats. It's a block thing inside of a para, specifically when there's mixed content before the block thing. para The following image shows just what I mean. informalfigure float=0 mediaobject

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: keep-with-previous and block things inside of paras

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:29 07/10/2002, David Cramer wrote: XEP does this with the fo (Hope my ascii art doesn't get munged): |---| |---| |Blah blah | ||-|| | | ||image.gif|| | | || || | | || || | | || || | |

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [DOCBOOK] docbook buttons?

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:29 08/10/2002, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: hello, because i created my complete web site using docbook/website i would like add a docbook GIF button to the 'powered by' section of my site. Yes, I'd do that too. How about the docbook 'duck' ?? Norm, would you ask O'Reilly please? Good

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [DOCBOOK] docbook buttons?

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:38 08/10/2002, Daniel Veillard wrote: if there is no official Logo, I suggest someone with knowledge of Photoshop/Gimp/whatever makes one based on the duck of the DocBook Book, assuming O'Reilly is fine if the project reuses the image for DocBook related icons. A good logo do make a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [DOCBOOK] docbook buttons?

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:42 08/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Daniel S. Haischt [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | is there a docbook button available? If you accept my crude renditions as available http://docbook.sf.net/release/buttons/website-1.png

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: column.count.back

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:08 08/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: Right. So the option that puts an article appendix on a separate page sequence will have to be a little more clever. Or we all accept that an article is in a single page flow? regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [DOCBOOK] docbook buttons?

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:42 08/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Daniel S. Haischt [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | is there a docbook button available? If you accept my crude renditions as available http://docbook.sf.net/release/buttons/website-1.png

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow processing

2002-10-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:12 06/10/2002, David Garnier wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is a common problem with an obvious solution, but I didn't found anything about it. Its one I'm suffering from at the moment. If you disconnect from the internet, it will stop altogether (guess) i.e. it is resolving the DTD's etc

Re: AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] translating whitespaces into nbsp;

2002-10-05 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:17 04/10/2002, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: but if i am using ... translate('This is a foobar sentence.', ' ', '#160;') ... with saxon i am getting the following result ... ThisA isA aA foobarA sentence. You need to set the output encoding to html. HTH DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: column.count.back

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:38 04/10/2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: 1) Is appendix in an article considered a back-matter Yes, IMO, but I could probably argue for some books it may be a part of the body, since 'other' material is better grouped as backmatter. b) Should not appendix be forced to start on a new page

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: column.count.back

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:15 04/10/2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: * Dave Pawson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04 Oct, 2002 wrote: b) Should not appendix be forced to start on a new page Yes, IMO Ok then why it does not and I have to add an extra processing instruction to force it ? Because we don't control/own the docbook

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: column.count.back

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:49 04/10/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: In fact, the XSL FO stylesheets do not treat an appendix in an article as back matter. There is a special template in fo/component.xsl with match=article/appendix that processes the appendix as if it were a section. It doesn't start a new page-sequence.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ? Success of 1.55.0 chunk.xsl varies by windowslogon?

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 03:10 02/10/2002, Billard, Trish wrote: When I log onto the Windows 2000 machine, and execute the batch file that calls the 1.55.0 stylesheets, things work fine. When a different person logs on to the same machine and executes the SAME batch file, the transformation fails completely. Are

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude doesn't validate with xmllint

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 03:35 02/10/2002, John Himpel wrote: I am trying to validate two xml files using the modular document technique that Bob Stayton shows in www.sagehill.net. Command: xmllint --catalogs --noout --xinclude --valid --dtdvalid http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd Caller.xml

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook Tutorial

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:10 02/10/2002, ion wrote: I have written a DocBook 'tutorial' that is ready for scrutiny Is it just me, or has the pareto point been reached with docbook documentation? Initially it was tdg and a few files from Norm... Now its getting to snowball time :-) Nice to have, but getting hard

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: abbrev - missing possibility to add the meaning ofan abbreviation

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:16 02/10/2002, Stephan Wiesner wrote: I use abbrev in conjunction with biblio elements. In my oppinion, it is not intended as standalone. biblioentry id=biblio_GoF abbrevGoF/abbrev snip. Ok, must admit I'd not thought of it being used like so. I'm far more used to the html

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes

2002-09-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:41 25/09/2002, Jirka Kosek wrote: In my test doc, which has book lang=ja, this seems to work. Is this the 'right' way to do it? Yes, this is a correct way to get language for current element. The problem is, that in lang attribute of xsl:sort you can't use expressions (AVTs) if you

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes

2002-09-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:02 24/09/2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: d) Why do I have to learn so many things just make a simple thing ( for hyphenation with Fop I had to create the configuration from the TeX Turkish hyphenation where TeX is was and will be Greek to me. In order to write a non working Compare_tr (

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes

2002-09-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:14 24/09/2002, Jirka Kosek wrote: e) Most probably I am a masochist or hacker who wants to play with cutting-edge technologies :-) grin/Thats the phrase I was looking for Jirka! DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-09-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:31 24/09/2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote: You right, olink is the best way. Probably. Or just add a dummy chapter with all missing IDs to the respective document (cf. David Megginson's book on XML). Its presently my bedside table reading.. chapter reference please, I haven't got to it.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Direct DocBook2txt?

2002-06-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:18 03/06/2002 +0200, Tomas Valusek wrote: Hello, I'm an editor of a Czech magazine for blind computer users. I'm working on WinXP, and currently almost all articles are written in HTML and converted to plain text because of accessibility (some subscribers can't use HTML). I use MSIE6 to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Increase default number of pagesequence masters/RFE

2002-06-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:58 12/06/2002 +0200, Jens Stavnstrup wrote: I would therefore suggest, that the pagesetup.xsl define an additional pagesequence master used specificly for these pre document elements, and then only use the titlepage1 for the actual titlepage. From what I've heard on this list, peoples

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mozilla Site Navigation toolbar hack

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:35 10/06/2002 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote: For the adventuresome, the nightly builds, i.e. trunk version 1.1a I think, still come with the link navigator enabled. Here's the link to the SVG capable version as it's published on the Mozilla SVG project page.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: French error message

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:32 27/05/2002 -0400, Dan York wrote: Okay, I'm stumped... anyone know why I get this error msg: Error at byte 653 of file:/E:/stinson/SME_Server/userguide/French/userguidesme.x ml: Error reported by XML parser: bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 sequence (c ode: 0x22) You have

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: French error message

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:17 28/05/2002 -0400, Jeff Beal wrote: I've gotten this message, too. I found (using Emacs) what seemed to be the area of problem. I don't remember the exact string, but it looked roughly like this: a\200\202 In my case, that character was supposed to be an rdquo;, I believe,

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 05:43 22/05/2002 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: Can someone point me to a description of what needs to be generated for SVG? http://www.protocol7.com/svg-wiki/ow.asp?EmbedingSvgInHTML HTH DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:00 22/05/2002 +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: Note that Mozilla 1.0 will not ship with SVG enabled. Nor IE. Use the svg plug in from adobe. www.adobe.com/svg Also includes the get out to download if not supported. Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: FOP 0.20.3 with 1.50.0 SS problem.

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 06:35 21/05/2002 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | BTW, Does the resolver 1.1 have a practical range of verbosity? 0 off, | to the highest ?? It has a range, I don't know if you'll find the steps practical. 0=off, 1=show a few things, 2=show more, 3=show most, 4=show all. And to get it going in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:57 21/05/2002 +1000, Steve Ball wrote: Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. Might have guessed I'm an era out of date (How did Motley put it

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: numbered lines

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:45 21/05/2002 -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: I have a developer who wants to print, from a DocBook SGML document, PDFs with numbered lines so that reviewers can respond with comments by line number. Anyone know how to do this in the DSSSLs? ?? Deliver the xml to the reviewers? Then user markup

DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-20 Thread Dave Pawson
I had occasion today to include an SVG diagram in HTML output. Is this a rare beast? Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:36 17/05/2002 +0200, Steffen Maier wrote: Is there any option or flag that would trace or profile what the startup code is actually doing ? Yet another flag :-): Try starting up your Emacs instance with the command line parameter --debug-init. Alas, as the name already suggests it

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:34 16/05/2002 +1200, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote: I'm using the psgml emacs package under Windows 2000, as downloaded from the TEI website, and slowly converting to using a powerful (but different keystrokes to what I'm used to !!) editor. However, why does it take almost a minute to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:15 16/05/2002 -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: I don't know Windows. If you can run emacs from the RUN button, try running it with --no-init as a run flag; this loads Emacs alone without loading any of the library files. Emacs itself is mostly just an engine, and your distro may have

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:20 14/05/2002 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: Looks like its troff? (Excuse my ignorance, are they related? ) Yep. The troff command produces typeset output, nroff produces ascii output. Single-source for multiple outputs. Just like DocBook. 8^) OK, stop chuckling Bob :-) Nothing new on

DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml

2002-05-14 Thread Dave Pawson
This came up on the xfree86 list. Our Argentinan contigent is very anxious to translate the man pages (into docbook) Don't ask me why :-). the problem is that they are in nroff. Is their something out there that translates nroff? Anyone come across such a tool please? Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml

2002-05-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:26 14/05/2002 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: Our Argentinan contigent is very anxious to translate the man pages (into docbook) Don't ask me why :-). the problem is that they are in nroff. Is their something out there that translates nroff? They might try:

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml

2002-05-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:27 14/05/2002 +0300, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: * Dave Pawson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 14 May, 2002 wrote: This came up on the xfree86 list. Our Argentinan contigent is very anxious to translate the man pages (into docbook) Don't ask me why :-). the problem is that they are in nroff

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiment for Notes on Graphics in HTML

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:59 06/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: I'm not sure exactly how all this translates into what should the DocBook stylesheets do, but it does make for an interesting discussion on how to optimize automated web site generation via XSL. What timescales Paul? Netscape 4.x is time limited.

Re: Fwd: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiment for Notes on Graphics in HTML

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:52 06/05/2002 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote: Thanks. As I mention in the item, proper scaling is definitely the best thing to do for numerous reasons; It is fairly intuitive Ed. I want this image, its too big/small, make it x% bigger/smaller (and keep the ht/width ratio) I'd suggest its worth

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-05 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:58 04/05/2002 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: This is (was) bug in AElfred. Mike Kay said me that he fixed this bug in 6.5.2, but I didn't test it yet. Same bug caused troubles with catalog files and AElfred when used within Saxon. You can try Saxon 6.5.2, and if this doesn't help, you can still

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website: feature request

2002-05-05 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:42 05/05/2002 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: The problem is the main stylesheets. The short answer is to put your id attributes on the question elements inside the qandaentry elements. The TOC actually lists question elements, and will use that id as a stable link name. But I think when

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ant, resolver and catalogs

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:42 03/05/2002 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Dave Pawson wrote: I've posted a new page, describing ant and . I'd appreciate comments/improvements from 'seasoned' resolver class users if you have the time please. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html Hi Dave, It's nice

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: WikiText 2 DocBook

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 04:32 04/05/2002 -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I saw a mention of a tool that converts WikiText pages to DocBook format. It was the other way round that crossed my mind! Then the faq could go on the wiki page. Regards DaveP

DOCBOOK-APPS: website: feature request

2002-05-04 Thread Dave Pawson
website, qandaentry processing is a simple apply-templates for all websites (I'm using chunk-website) The linking (local to page) down to page content is done via generate-id(). I've had a request that these remain static as more entries are added. Although qandaentry has an id attribute in the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Keeping entities in a transformation

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:47 02/05/2002 -0400, Jeff Beal wrote: I m working an an XSL script to clean up my DocBook XML. I m running into problems because all of the entities are declared in a top-level driver file, and the content resides in about 3,000 external entities, which do not include DOCTYPE

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Keeping entities in a transformation

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:16 02/05/2002 -0500, David Cramer wrote: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office xmlns:w = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word I've always wanted to know if there's a right way to do that myself. I've resorted to using sed to obfuscate the entities before processing, then unobfuscating

DOCBOOK-APPS: ant, resolver and catalogs

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Pawson
I've posted a new page, describing ant and . I'd appreciate comments/improvements from 'seasoned' resolver class users if you have the time please. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html TIA, DaveP

DOCBOOK-APPS: wiki wiki wiki

2002-04-30 Thread Dave Pawson
So where's the newbie guide to wiki's, i.e. syntax to use, etc. Is it as simple as it says on the edit sheets? No docbook submissions or anything? Can it be indexed? Can I correct it if I screw it up? Advice please TIA DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone used java server pages to serve upDocBook XML documents?

2002-04-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:21 29/04/2002 -0700, Lori Wong wrote: I'm new and although I've looked through the list archive, I'm not sure that the postings about Java and DocBook XML necessarily address implementing a java server page to serve up DocBook XML as HTML on-the-fly. Most of the postings appear to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website 2

2002-04-28 Thread Dave Pawson
Problem solved. Finger (memory?) trouble. Having picked up saxon652 website 21b1 I now have it producing the structure I expected. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: window= attribute for ulink?

2002-04-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:21 26/04/2002 -0700, Carlos wrote: Isn't that the author's duty to make sure that the windows being opened are clearly marked? Yes, both the link and the new window need such annotation. Do you think there's a way to make it accessible enough? As I suggested in my original email,

DOCBOOK-APPS: website 2

2002-04-27 Thread Dave Pawson
I'm having a problem with the directory structure in website. layout file toc page=root.xml dir=svg filename=index.html tocentry page=script.xml dir=script filename=script.html tocskip=0 tocentry page=animate.xml filename=animate.html / /tocentry tocentry

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website 2

2002-04-27 Thread Dave Pawson
not there? regards DaveP At 13:26 27/04/2002 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: I'm having a problem with the directory structure in website. layout file toc page=root.xml dir=svg filename=index.html tocentry page=script.xml dir=script filename=script.html tocskip=0 tocentry page=animate.xml

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: window= attribute for ulink?

2002-04-26 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:14 25/04/2002 -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: Greetings all, Back in November Bob and Norm briefly discussed the addition of a window attribute to ULink to allow opening a new browser window from a link. Are we still waiting on XLink? Has anything been done with this? Can I just specify the

DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook faq back online

2002-04-13 Thread Dave Pawson
Sorry for any inconvenience. faq back on line, www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Website Info Needed

2002-04-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 07:37 12/04/2002 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the help, I'll give it a try. I'm really intrigued by the metadata nature of the system and that boiler plate, menus etc can be added and changed easily. I thought so too. Then I found ant :-) One hell of an overlap in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: locating stylesheets with a param

2002-04-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:04 12/04/2002 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: There is help for setting up catalog files in Dave Pawson's FAQ: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/catalogs.html but I think that FAQ is off the air at the moment? Has it been moved, or will it be coming back? It will be back (in fact is up again)

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:24 10/04/2002 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: What is XSLTproc? That's vaguely familiar... Sending private (or even better, a link to a web page) works just as well. But this is OK with me :) Hehe don't worry I will make a bit of advertizing: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:56 11/04/2002 -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote: Ant is pretty much a Java Make, but that doesn't do it proper justice. Read http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/intro.html for the whole deal. As it's written in Java, simply pick your favorite JVM. As to it's ability to process DocBook, that

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:24 11/04/2002 -0400, Glass, Eric wrote: The attached zipfile contains what I am using, and a simple example book. This assumes you have all the necessary jars in your classpath, ant is set up, etc.. Thanks Eric, seems like it will do the business! Regards DaveP.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Website Info Needed

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
://www.dpawson.co.uk;Dave Pawson/holder /copyright style src=xslfaq.css type=text/css/ !-- Now the toc for the whole site. -- toc page=dpawson.xml filename=index.html ^^ input file dpawson.xml becomes output file index.html in (current) root directory. tocentry page=braille.xml

Re[2]: DOCBOOK-APPS: Visio Vector Graphics - DocBook XSL

2002-04-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:38 08/04/2002 +0200, Doc Team Lingua Tedesca2 wrote: Dear Docbook friends, Under Windoze, there is a very inexpensive (shareware 25$, but unlimited trial version) drawing program by Mayura (http://www.mayura.com) which imports postscript (.ps), and, after converting it to .ai using a

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Overview of available editors

2002-04-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:50 06/04/2002 -0500, Ed Nixon wrote: My question is, can you point me to information that would give me some insight into creating online or electronic information sources that use sign? I guess, given I'm in North America, ASL would be of more direct interest but anything that would

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: problems with jclarks Driver and docbook-xsl-1.50.0

2002-03-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:16 28/03/2002 +0100, Michael H.E. Roth wrote: On Thursday, 28. March 2002 03:40, Dave Pawson wrote: At 13:19 27/03/2002 +0100, Michael H.E. Roth wrote: I'm curious how you came to be using XT rather than a more up to date processor? What web (or other reference) took you to XT

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: minor updates to the development version of the XSLdocs

2002-03-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:06 28/03/2002 -0600, Michael Smith wrote: For what it's worth, yesterday I made some minor updates to a portion of the source for the how to part of the XSL stylesheet docs, adding a specific admonition not to use XT, chuckles/ Good timing Michael. He beat you to it Norm :-) Regards

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: problems with jclarks Driver and docbook-xsl-1.50.0

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:19 27/03/2002 +0100, Michael H.E. Roth wrote: I will try that. And to the maintainers of the documentation of the docbook-stylesheets: could you please add this information to the documentation (at least somewhere in the whatsnew file or so.) Would have saved me hours if not days

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Colwidth attribute of colspec not processed ?

2002-03-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:10 20/03/2002 -0500, Jeff Beal wrote: I would strongly suggest getting the latest from Sun and installing it. Go to http://java.sun.com/ and download the Java Runtime Edition version 1.4.0. They have a good version for Win2K that I've been using without this sort of problem I might be a

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:30 19/03/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Pawson: Which would be easier? a)To provide a mini DTD for 'glue' which then becomes a topic, b)Process glue content as a special? Most glue really isn't appropriate for treatment as a topic. I was moving to ease of processing over

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:54 19/03/2002 -0500, Nancy (Paisner) Harrison wrote: Toolsmiths, including authors who are toolsmiths, tend to prefer 'ease of processing;' authors who aren't toolsmiths generally prefer 'rules that make sense.' chuckles/ In which case is it another rule that topics should be

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:16 18/03/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. accomodate the 'glue text' that books need to connect physically sequential topics You can factor this out into a map document, Isn't glue text simply a tiny, short lived chunk Michael? Regards DaveP

DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Using DocBook XSL for previewing in XMetaL 3.0?

2002-03-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:03 02/03/2002 -0600, David Cramer wrote: I've had good luck with it There's a situation where msxml gets confused resolving entities I can't remember what it is, but it seems like it is not the same 'relative to the place it was used rather than declared' problem that Saxon used to have

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet documentation (was: Re: Simplifying theXSL transform commands)

2002-03-01 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:54 01/03/2002 +0100, Jochen Hein wrote: That reminds me that we might need some documentation what stylesheets are really part of Norms work, what they really do and (for some cases) how to use them Using autoidx, chunking (which kinds) comes to my mind I was looking into indexing and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL customization layer question

2002-02-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:32 26/02/2002 -0600, Dennis Grace wrote: I solved this by putting a white space and *then* a carriage return after the xsl:text. Has anyone else chuckled when they realised what xsl:text/ does? Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Especial Chars in Bookmark

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:46 12/02/2002 +0100, Juan R. Migoya wrote: I would appreciate some help here: I have a document for software functions which frequently have characters like _ in their names. The bookmarks in the pdf output (I use jadetex 3.11) skip those characters, which is something awful. BTW, it also

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using DSSSL stylesheets with XML

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:35 07/02/2002 -0500, Jeff Beal wrote: It looks like DSSL is returning validation errors. It's entire possible that your XSLT processor does not fully validate. (I know that Saxon doesn't catch everything.) Get a validating XML parser, like Xerces, and run it on your XML if you're not

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure

2002-01-30 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:47 29/01/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed Norm's straw proposal too. As I recall there was some argument that a recursive section is just the ticket for doing online docs, and maybe we don't need a special dtd. Maybe trying this will convince me one way or the other. Are

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: free DocBook tools that handle Japanese

2002-01-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:48 29/01/2002 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: You can use Japanized FOP (http://jpfop.sourceforge.net/index.html). By the way, OpenJade (for DocBook/SGML) and xsltproc (for DocBook/XML) can work properly for Japanese documents (I am actually using them). As part of an exercise, I want to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

2002-01-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:33 28/01/2002 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: This is processed fine by jade, but using saxon and xsl I get the error: Error on line 215 column 10 of file:/home/allin/stats/esl/gretl/doc/xml/appendices.xml: Error reported by XML parser: name expected (found =) Transformation

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

2002-01-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:43 27/01/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: snip/ The same code that helps to produce title pages is supposed to be able to help produce bibliographies, but I haven't (yet) got all that stuff working. Markus mailed me off list, some of the complexities. Seems even more personal taste than

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A good tag for representing a very long URL

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:44 25/01/2002 +0100, Bang, Steinar wrote: What would be a good DocBook tag for representing very long URLs? I've tried userinput and programlisting, but the problem is that they become too long, when rendered by Fop. The URLs continue past the right edge of the paper. Deliberate \ on

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FAQ tagging

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:44 25/01/2002 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: You can put revhistory element inside qandaentry for marking date and author of answer. Bit of an overkill Jirka? Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Pawson
Hi Markus. Please excuse my ignorance, but would someone do a little educating please? I have no idea what the issues are that make a biblio such a beast to style. If anyone has a demo of a good markup+display of a snippet of biblio I'd much appreciate it. Or am I the only one on the list that

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing PDF look and feel using DocBook,Ep ic Print Composer and XSL-FO

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:22 24/01/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW: In Epic 4.1*, the XSLT processor is XT. I found out because XT barfs on the key function, preventing me from using the latest docbook.xsl with Epic Compose. I haven't installed Epic 4.2, but don't see anything in the release notes that

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing PDF look and feel using DocBook,Ep ic Print Composer and XSL-FO

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:21 24/01/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arbortext tells me it's Xalan when I speak with the Sales engineers. That's good news - I couldn't pry the info out of Arbortext. Sorry for the false alarm. FYI, in 4.1.1 the help topic, Composing a document using XSL said, You can publish

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Spellchecking DocBook

2002-01-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:23 22/01/2002 +, Ian Castle wrote: On UNIX I use aspell which understands SGML/XML tags aspell --mode=sgml check file.xml You would probably have to find some fancy XML editor on the Windows platform that would do the job recent reading mentioned aspell, some variant of ispell??

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Link for TEI Emacs Package

2002-01-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:51 20/01/2002 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: Hi! Could anybody repost the link for the TEI Emacs package? I've seen it appear twice on this list, but no longer recall in which threads. I need parts of this package to make the psgmlx package parse the encoding attribute of the XML declaration

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Encoding for French?

2002-01-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:08 17/01/2002 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: Usually you will need Iso Latin 1, but people start to switch to Iso Latin 15 to get the Euro symbol support. Make sure you have ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? 8859-1 I've heard of. 'Latin 15' Daniel? Any more info on that

DOCBOOK-APPS: Abiword to docbook

2002-01-17 Thread Dave Pawson
After half an hours playing its a fair, quick and dirty method of getting word into docbook. Usual trick. Open the document, Select all, style as normal text. Run through it and mark up headings, normal text, lists, etc. Save as docbook. Only error when validated was the missing title tag

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

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:43 14/01/2002 -0800, Carlos Araya wrote: Have you read Markus H's stuff. Its always worked for me? No, what's the URL? http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ntsgml.html Well worth some time. Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie-esue question

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:55 15/01/2002 +0100, Juan R. Migoya wrote: I also like the things that has a PRESENT. A couple of years working with DSSSL and Jade have compensated the learning curve. (BTW: I'm mainly -but not only-interested in printed documentation). fyi. On the dsssl list at Mulberrytech, there is

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

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:07 15/01/2002 +0100, Alexander Schatten wrote: 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

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: authoritative source for SGML ISO character entitydefinitions?

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:45 15/01/2002 +, Ian Castle wrote: Really, the linux tools (RPMs from say, redhat, Mandrake et. al) are getting to the point where they provide a good environment for docbook processing out of the box. Anyone know where these might be found please, for the faq. (Not being a *nix user)

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

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:15 15/01/2002 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Dave Pawson writes: That's why I liked the idea of 'skipping' a few versions. Say one update per year, at Norm's choosing? Surely you're kidding? How are you going to explain to the crowd, you still have to wait 10 months for these bug

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

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:36 15/01/2002 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juan, OK, now I am REALLY confused! Read Markus post on this list. If you want straightforward html and print output from docbook xml, select fop and docbook stuff. Follow his instructions carefully and it will work. Honest. HTH DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xsl-fo, 1.48 stylesheets

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:49 13/01/2002 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:02:41AM +, Dave Pawson wrote: In the output I see fo:block space-before.minimum=0.8em space-before.optimum=1em space-before.maximum=1.2em font-family=Courier font-size=9pt wrap-option=no-wrap text-align=start

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

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:11 14/01/2002 +0100, Alexander Schatten wrote: the meaning is this: off course: provide current updates off all subprojects for the specialists. but PLEASE provide ONE solution, that does is all for the normal user. this one must not be updated that often and also needs not to support

DOCBOOK-APPS: xsl-fo, 1.48 stylesheets

2002-01-12 Thread Dave Pawson
In the output I see fo:block space-before.minimum=0.8em space-before.optimum=1em space-before.maximum=1.2em font-family=Courier font-size=9pt wrap-option=no-wrap text-align=start white-space-collapse=false linefeed-treatment=preserve writing-mode=tb-rlgt;/fo:block

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