Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Ian Castle
This is the process that I went through (sort of): 1. Decide on document output formats   - It is too hard to juggle every permutation of image/document format, therefore   - HTML for on-line   - PDF for paper 2. Decide on Image formats   - Too hard to cope with every image format at the

DOCBOOK-APPS: Admon graphics in tables with multiple paras

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I have been investigating my problems with Admon Graphics a bit further. I now have admon graphics looking good since I formatted admonitions as tables, *but*, whenever I use more than one para in an admonitition, I find that I do not get %para-sep% of space between them. It struct me

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: db2latex

2001-07-26 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Karl Eichwalder writes: otherwise, I put it to you that AFs are pure theory. I tried it along David Megginson's book 'Structuring XML Documents' using nsgmls and it works. yes. it works. but does anyone use it in the real world? I'd be a fair amount of money that David M never used it

DOCBOOK-APPS: Font size of titles in recursive sections.

2001-07-26 Thread CHOVANEC Vladimr
Hi, Is there some way to "switch off" reduction of title font size in html output of recursive sections? I would like to have all titles to be same size. Thanks Vlado --- Best choice comes from experience, experience comes from bad choices.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Dave Brooks, BCS Systems
At 09:32 26/07/01 +0100, you wrote: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems writes: For a JPEG I get the Latex error message ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in test.jpg (no BoundingBox). you do not have a current copy of the file pdftex.def I now have - the header has [2000/06/16 v0.03a

DOCBOOK-APPS: Modifying Qandaset Style in XSL

2001-07-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hello, I have a document with several Q and As and I am using QandASet; however I am unhappy with the way the Q and As are so bunched together in the html - no change in font or colour whatsoever. I need a way to at least make the words in the question all bold, or a way to change the

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: variablelist FOP-rendering

2001-07-26 Thread Joy Andree
I too did not like the look of the variablelist and added this change to my customization layer in the fo stylesheet. I am using FOP also. xsl:template match=variablelist xsl:variable name=idxsl:call-template name=object.id//xsl:variable xsl:apply-templates/ /xsl:template xsl:template

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: extension for saxon 6.4.3 broken?

2001-07-26 Thread Bradford, Denis
Bingo! My system ID for the DTD didn't use the file:/// convention at all. Thanks so much - this brings us closer to being able to switch from dsssl to xslt, which we'd much prefer to invest in. The error I'm working on now is at the end when the toc is autogenerated (we have no TOC coding in

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Dave Brooks, BCS Systems writes: you do not have a current copy of the file pdftex.def I now have - the header has [2000/06/16 v0.03a graphics/color for pdftex], and comments in the file indicate support for jpeg, png, pdf, etc, but still get the error. and is it being loaded? do

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Gershon L Joseph wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears. face it,

DOCBOOK-APPS: margin-start bug in varlistentry template

2001-07-26 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
The XSL 1.4.1 template for varlistentry in lists.xsl uses the margin-start property. However, there is no such property in XSL. I think what's needed instead is either margin-left or space-start. Currently the template reads: xsl:template match=varlistentry mode=vl.as.blocks xsl:variable

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jeffrey Franks wrote: Gershon L Joseph wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)

2001-07-26 Thread Bob McIlvride
Joe Cooper wrote: Of those, SGML-OpenJade-JadeTeX-pdfjadetex is what I've decided on for my current projects, for the following reasons: ... This and everything that follows have pretty much been our experience and recommendation. Between the changes and new versions of DocBook DSSSL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About EBNF

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Jeffrey Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: | | / Jeffrey Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | | Can someone please offer a suggestion. I'm at a dead end. | | The EBNF customization layer; see http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | | Cool! | | Docs

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Gershon L Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | disclaimerI don't work for Arbortext. I'm just a satisfied customer./ My disclaimer is that I used to work for them, but I'll add that they have pretty good support for print publishing using XSL FOs now, too.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Synopses in XSL-FO stylesheets

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | The support for classsynopsis, methodsynopsis, and related elements | seems substantially more advanced in the Docbook XSL stylesheets for | HTML than for FO. In the next release, would it be possible to get the | FO stylesheets

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Font size of titles in recursive sections.

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ CHOVANEC Vladimír [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Is there some way to switch off reduction of title font size in html | output of recursive sections? | I would like to have all titles to be same size. Use CSS. The stylesheets use H1, H2, H3, etc. as most people would expect. Your user

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: variablelist FOP-rendering

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ jENs [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I suspect, it's not working as it should. | In the FO-sources it seems well defined (, well it looks like for me | as an absolute beginner on FO). I'm sure it's FOP. | is it FOP again ...??? Can I change this behaviour? Try setting

DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Modifying Qandaset Style in XSL

2001-07-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
I figured it out myself...oops. I have a document with several Q and As and I am using QandASet; however I am unhappy with the way the Q and As are so bunched together in the html - no change in font or colour whatsoever. I need a way to at least make the words in the question all bold,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Dave Brooks, BCS Systems: Well, the path: [tex] - jadetex - [dvi] - dvips - [ps] - epstopdf - [pdf] gives me graphics in the PDF; [tex] - pdfjadetex - [pdf] doesn't ! Did you try [tex] - jadetex - [dvi] - dvipdf - [pdf] ? -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Modifying Qandaset Style in XSL

2001-07-26 Thread M.-A. DARCHE
On 20010725 14:50 (Wednesday), Jeff McKenna wrote: I have a document with several Q and As and I am using QandASet; however I am unhappy with the way the Q and As are so bunched together in the html - no change in font or colour whatsoever. I need a way to at least make the words in the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting images into PDF

2001-07-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Richard Sharpe: Well, I have no problems getting a PDF into my DocBook stuff. Of course, I think I had to modify the DTD to allow format=PDF ... I used fileref='gabarit.pdf' format='EPS' and it works ok. -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)

2001-07-26 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Bob McIlvride writes: jadetex 3.10 (version 3.11 has a bug that I can't solve, posted to sourceforge) hmm, I suppose I should monitor sourceforge then :-} s -- To unsubscribe from this elist

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About EBNF

2001-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Norman Walsh wrote: Jeffrey Franks wrote: | However, I'm able to express the bnf, but I can't figure out how to | connect | the description (several line paragraph) to the right-hand side. Can you provide an example of what you'd like to be able to do? Yes, there's a doodle at end of this