Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: TeX capacity exceeded,sorry [number of strings=51918].

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
with regular (tex-based) jadetex, and without that special directive. The ToC (LoT in my case) page numbers always flip back between ?? and 999 with each jadetex run. In fact, I am observing it right now, with up-to-date tools. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook DSSSL stylesheets 1.62 bug with%label-preface-sections% (fwd)

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Because Norm Walsh doesn't seem to have the time to respond, I figured I'd send this here so it doesn't get lost completely. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 02:37:10 +0100 (CET) From: Peter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Cross references

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. AFAIK, links work to anywhere. What doesn't work to everywhere is xref, presumably because of the inability to generate appropriate "hot" text. I generally avoid link altogether, because they don't show in print versions. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to go from V3.1 to 4.1?

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
e relative to where the containing catalog file resides, or you can use an absolute path. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter -- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the s

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How do you %indent-programlisting-lines for anexternal file?

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
, jade errors out. I've attached a new source.pl that demos this. Maybe !ENTITY programFile SYSTEM ./source.pl CDATA works. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter -- To unsubscribe from

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Why do some entities need () around them ...

2001-07-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. (define ($object-titles-after$) (list (...) (...) ...)) is equivalent to (define $object-titles-after$) (lambda () (list (...) (...) ...))) This would presumably allow you to give these parameters context-dependent values in some way. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trivial Jade setup question

2001-09-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
The xml.dcl file is in the jade distribution. D:\TEMP\jade\jade.exe:E: cannot open test.dsl (No such file or directory) D:\TEMP\jade\jade.exe:E: specification document does not have the DSSSL architecture as a base architecture You need to specify a style sheet (with the -d option). -- Peter Eisentraut

DOCBOOK-APPS: Odd list formatting, another

2001-10-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
there are, by eye-ball measure, about 2 or 3 blank lines, at least a lot more than there should be. I have looked at the code and it's definitely a stylesheet issue. Does someone have a fix for this or feel like working on one? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Odd formatting of lists

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
-mode This would presume that: a) (process-node-list (children (current-node))) is sufficiently equivalent to (process-children). I don't know. b) There isn't someone who actually wants the spaces. Comments? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML-PDF

2001-10-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
the linking completely. So, er, my opinion is that it can be made to work, but if you're writing more than an article then it's a bit of an effort. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML-PDF

2001-10-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tammy Fox writes: Try used EPS images. pdfTeX doesn't accept EPS images. I convert my PNGs into EPSs, convert SGML to TeX, TeX to DVI, DVI to PS, and finally using ghostscript to convert PS to PDF. That's a possibility, but this way you don't get pdf bookmarks. -- Peter Eisentraut

DOCBOOK-APPS: pdfTeX and PNG images

2001-10-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
| [ stops ] Incompatible with what? I have libpng 1.0.8 installed, but I don't see TeX dynamically linked to that. Looks like a botched installation. I have tetex-1.0.7-7 as contained in Red Hat 7.0. Any ideas? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best Linux toolchain for SGML-PDF

2001-10-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
url.sty were rather feable. Almost all of the customizations that we made to the DocBook stylesheets for our printed output have been checked into the FreeBSD Documentation Project CVS repository. How about forwarding them to the main stylesheet repository? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: mkdiff + index building

2001-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
think this can work, because the index entries wouldn't have an anchor to point to. At least you would be in for some non-trivial work to make that happen. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe from

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mandrake DSSSL and jadetex customizations

2001-11-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
camille writes: I have followed coding only from far, but URLs appear in black in both PDF and PS and the links work in PDF. Do you mean you can click on the URLs in PDF and have them open in a browser window? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Changing PDF bookmarks

2001-12-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
-label-title-sep (gi ; ^^^ . The best solution would probably be to refactor this into a locale-specific format string for each component type. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Passivetex as RPM?

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Carlos Araya writes: Does anyone know if passivetex is offered as RPM, either an official one or something people have put together. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=passivetex -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Preface page numbers problem revisited.

2002-01-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
haven't had the need to and my page numbers appear to come out right. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-01-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
by himself from scratch he should use a prepackaged deal. This is available for many operating systems. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: ProgramListingCO bugs on linespecific imagetext files ?

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. Everything else just seems to fall down somewhere. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Rendering footnotes on the same page in the printversions.

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josef Karthauser writes: Is it possible to render footnotes on the same pages at they occur in the text, instead of at the end of each chapter? (define bop-footnotes #t) You also have to set (define tex-backend #t) and of course you actually have to use the TeX backend. -- Peter

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Multi-column output

2002-04-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
{multicols*}. Upgrade to Jadetex 3.11. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[docbook-apps] some wiki links on SF web site are broken

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
For example, http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ links to http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets, but that gives a 404 response, and the correct link is http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets. Apparently, there was a change in the wiki's URL scheme. I have noticed links from

[docbook-apps] chunking very slow

2013-05-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I have embarked on converting the PostgreSQL documentation from DocBook SGML + DSSSL to XML + XSLT. The problem is that the XSLT to chunked HTML build is very very slow, even with the fast chunking. To give you an estimate of the size, the PostgreSQL documentation is about 2500 pages in PDF.

Re: [docbook-apps] chunking very slow

2013-05-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 5/29/13 12:29 AM, David Cramer wrote: Maybe try the DocBook xslt 2.0 stylesheets [1] with Saxon 9.x for comparison as well. Thanks you for that suggestion. I tried for a couple of hours to set this up, and failed. Which means most of my co-developers will also fail. Which reminds me of

[docbook-apps] wiki.docbook.org down

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
wiki.docbook.org has been down for a few days. Is this being looked into? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org

Re: [docbook-apps] How useful is chunker.output.indent?

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 11:48 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: Hi Peter, The quality of the indenting depends on the XSLT processor. All that DocBook XSL is doing is passing along the setting to the processor. The stylesheet does not perform any indenting. What XSLT processor are you using?

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] performance issue - 5MB Source lead to a processtime up to 20 minutes

2014-01-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 1/16/14, 11:11 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: [Moving to docbook-apps list which is more appropriate...] On 16.1.2014 9:18, markus.sticker.e...@zf.com wrote: I have to process a larger docbook file to fo (700 pages / docbook file size: 5mb). I tried to use serveral processors like xsltproc,

[docbook-apps] snapshots redirect broken

2014-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/snapshot/ redirects to http://docbook.xml-doc.org/snapshots/xsl/, which no longer(?) exists, but it should go to http://snapshots.docbook.org/xsl/. Also, http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/cvs/ is wrong, but maybe that should be removed

[docbook-apps] wiki.docbook.org down

2014-03-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
http://isup.me/wiki.docbook.org Is anyone looking into this? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org

Re: [docbook-apps] .texi files conversion to docbook

2015-01-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 1/13/15 2:48 AM, davep wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:10:59 -0500 Peter Eisentraut pe...@eisentraut.org wrote: On 1/6/15 4:35 AM, davep wrote: Does anyone know if tools to convert from texinfo files to docbook are up to date please? Do they do a good / reasonable job? I have been using

Re: [docbook-apps] Generating a page list for epub

2015-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2/10/15 1:36 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: Has anyone on the list tackled the challenge of generating a page list for ePub output? A page list is a mapping of print page numbers to locations in the ePub. Doesn't the page count depend on the size of the rendering device?

Re: [docbook-apps] .texi files conversion to docbook

2015-01-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 1/6/15 4:35 AM, davep wrote: Does anyone know if tools to convert from texinfo files to docbook are up to date please? Do they do a good / reasonable job? I have been using docbook2x for a while. It works alright, but there are many cases where it cannot map some DocBook content to Texinfo,

[docbook-apps] using markup inside title elements

2020-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I have a question whether markup inside title elements is recommended practice. For example, consider text like You can use commands foo or bar for this. Let's say we have a refentry for "foo", so it would be nice to write You can use commands or bar for this. But then the

Re: [docbook-apps] using markup inside title elements

2020-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2020-09-23 14:05, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote: Let's say we have a refentry for "foo", so it would be nice to write You can use commands or bar for this. I’d probably do this: You can use commands or bar for this. Okay, thanks for this tip, this looks nicest. We're not

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook-xsl URL mess

2020-07-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
and will be making a new release soon.  Could you please file an issue on the DocBook XSL github with your recommended fix: https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/ Bob Stayton b...@sagehill.net On 6/8/2020 12:02 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: In docbook-xsl 1.79.2, the system identifier

[docbook-apps] docbook-xsl URL mess

2020-06-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
In docbook-xsl 1.79.2, the system identifier was changed from http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/... to http://cdn.docbook.org/release/xsl/current/... However, this was done in a backward-incompatible way. So now, in your customization layer or build system, you have

Re: [docbook-apps] Asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF tooling

2021-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 09.11.21 22:14, Randall Wood wrote: This is the first tool I tried, it is missing a lot of formatting capabilities that FOP and Latex have, but with FOP appearing to be all but abandoned (and me having some problems with it), I’m looking at a replacement for it. FOP looks reasonably