On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:14:26 EDT, deannel...@aol.com wrote:
I've never personally used it as a spoon, but it could be used
that way with some modifications.
Modifications to the CD, or to your mouth?
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If you really want an interesting problem, go for distinguishing among the
uses of the ASCII period!
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(The description of figure, informalfigure and informaltable all
appear to be correct.)
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as a whole, to
do what you want. Our own setup is decidedly non-vanilla, and it does take
some work to keep on top of things.
In sum, we are satisfied customers of XXE. (We have gladly paid for the
Professional version.)
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; the individual grammar
rules scattered throughout our prose grammar get tangled into an XML
document, which we further process into another target language. But the
tangled doc can be in any programming language.
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:32:13 +0100, Ivan Ristic ivan.ris...@gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
wrote:
Sounds like a job for Literate Programming. Instead of keeping your
source code and examples in external file(s), keep them in your DocBook
haven't used some of the elements
you're using, such as procedure, mediaobject, screenshot etc. So
perhaps there's a problem there.
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their own in-house style sheets, I
think.
Introducing a LaTeX phase to a publishing house that is *not* already
familiar with it is of course a different problem...
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that makes it has a great mailing list,
and responds to each query.
(As a Word 2003-and-earlier-versions user, if you can stomach the jump to
Word 2007, you can do anything; XMLmind is a much easier jump, IMO.)
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, can't be me...)
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find both the
current and consistent schema and human-readable documentation for DB5?
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On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:25:48 +0200, Markus Hoenicka
markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de wrote:
maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu was heard to say:
Perhaps this XML frag is supposed to be
citationbiblioref linkend=Chomsky1965 begin=23
end=25//citation
I can't comment on the innards of the RNG
and/or the feature was already there :-).)
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On 11/24/2010 09:34 AM, maxwell wrote:
I haven't done a *comparison*, but we routinely use dblatex + XeTeX (= a
Unicode-aware version of LaTeX) to produce multi-lingual PDF documents.
We chose this route because it wasn't clear that the FOP route would
deal well with some of the scripts we
; see the discussion of Pernicious Mixed Content here:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/entry.html
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of this general issue (whether it's
possible to algorithmically determine the ends of an R2L run inside an L2R
run, or vice versa) over on the XeTeX mailing list. The opinion of Those
Who Know seems to be that it is not 100% decidable.
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in our DocBook
localization for text in right-to-left languages, which of course
necessitated our writing some special XSLT code for the conversion to
XeTeX.
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) straightforward to tag
sequences of characters in this or that Unicode block for the font that
they should use. (The tags will be dependent on your typesetting system,
of course.)
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Doesn't look like the situation's much better in vanilla LaTeX; the
consensus seems to be that you need to convert a SVG graphic to PDF before
including it in the LaTeX source. The same work-around would work in
XeLaTeX, too.
Mike Maxwell
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:01:31 +0200, Křištof Želechovski
giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote:
What is the purpose of including such long URL in a printed document?
Do you expect your readers to actually type it (without errors) when it
is
wider than the printed page?
PDF?
of the expected
parse, which is partly indicated by the row and column labels. I have
thought of going in the opposite direction--that is, creating an XML
structure for paradigms, then automatically converting that into a DocBook
table. But there are other problems with that.
Mike Maxwell
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:26:24 -0500, Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
wrote:
Yes, that's what it's doing--it's complaining about the second case
above, and singling out the info element...
That eliminates one explanation; I'll look into others. Thanks!
It was my dumb error. Sorry
style sheets, there's not much you can't tweak.
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inside footnotes at all:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/footnote.html
They are allowed with v5.1:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/footnote.html
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need its capability to
interact with a WebDAV server for purposes of using svn.)
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they wrap, but ymmv.)
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other language that implements SAX or DOM?
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, although most of
that has had to do with odd things we're doing with the alignment of
right-to-left text, and some linguistic data structures we've added to
the standard DocBook structures.
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On 2014-03-25 03:42, davep wrote:
I'm tempted to ask why you didn't use XSLT but I won't grin/
or xml_grep --text_only
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in the dblatex phase, unless there's actually
an error in the DocBook XML.
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incidental blip in the great cosmic drama
right-to-left text, etc.
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"I cannot believe that our existence in this universe
is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an
incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our
involvement is too int
.
Almost all LaTeX packages can be used in XeLaTeX (the ones that can't
are mostly ones that do something special with non-unicode characters).
dblatex will output xe(la)tex-conformant code if you give it the command
line parameter
-b xetex
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. That's because the
font changes are not a true stack, just a single "previous" font.
IIUC, this is the reason that LaTeX (an entirely different typesetting
system, of course) now discourages the use of the old commands \it and
\bf, in favor of \textit, textbf etc.
Mi
Looks great, I want to try it! But does it work with the open source
version of Saxon? Saxon-CE, described here:
http://www.saxonica.com/download/opensource.xml
The version # there is quite different from what you give below (6.5.5):
theirs is 9.7.
Mike Maxwell
On 11/11/2016 10:06 PM
Sorry, I meant Saxon-HE (same link)
On 11/12/2016 1:13 PM, maxwell wrote:
Looks great, I want to try it! But does it work with the open source
version of Saxon? Saxon-CE, described here:
http://www.saxonica.com/download/opensource.xml
The version # there is quite different from what you
have an old version), and I
can't figure out where the source for these things is now stored. (I
tried Google...)
If someone can point me to where the source is, I'd be happy to edit it;
or if there are permission issues, perhaps one of you can edit it to add
this term.
Mike Maxwell
(particularly where there is more than one diacritic, i.e. stacked
diacritics). Fonts should come with a chart that tells what code points
they handle, but that information can sometimes be difficult to find.
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University of Maryland
rt stacked
diacritics the last time I looked, such as Linux Biolinum, Linux
Libertine, Nimbus Sans, Fira Mono (and maybe other Fira fonts), and
DejaVu. Of course if you don't have stacked diacritics (=multiple
diacritics on a single base character), these may be adequate.
Mike Maxwell
programs. Support for gui apps is not officially
supported, but the apps I've tried work if you also install an X-windows
server app. I used to use Cygwin, but I prefer the Windows Linux
sub-system.
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, helped us through the early days.)
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to the idea of having programming libraries (the
Python model), rather than cramming everything into the main language
(the Common Lisp/ Ada model).
(Yes, I do know that I can omit elements. We do that--lots of it.)
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are in library modules.
In case it's not clear, I'm entirely for such modularization.
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Stefan Seefeld wrote:
On 03/14/2010 03:26 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
My sense (which I guess I've voiced a couple times) is that there is
already an awfully lot (too much, IMO) about DB that is specific to
programming languages. Our localization has over 200 lines like
define name
lists, e.g. the Lexicography
list (see http://linguistlist.org/lists/get-lists.cfm).
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of Unicode values in what is called the
“Private Use Area” (PUA) of Unicode.
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that was, but we routinely use dblatex
http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
It produces LaTeX, or better, XeLaTeX output.
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A library is the best possible imitation, by human beings,
of a divine mind, where the whole universe is viewed
reduce my modifications to this:
include href=xxe-config:docbook5/rng/V5.0/docbook.rng
...
define name=db.title
!--Replace the DocBook standard db.title--
element name=title
text/
/element
/define
/include
What am I doing wrong?
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that this gets translated into) is inside a title
(\title{}). Maybe I'll go back and try to figure out why the LaTeX
macro does that, instead of prohibiting remarks inside titles...
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gives me
the ff. error:
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute
which seems to mean that something that's supposed to be there (the
equivalent of a 'main' in some programming languages, maybe) isn't.
I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
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.
But what a price :-(: $1500/year for a site license! (Which is the
cheapest license they have; the only other choice is a multiple site
license.)
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harder than I think :-).
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of a divine mind, where the whole universe is viewed and
understood at the same time... we have invented libraries
because we know
recommend using xe(la)tex as your back end, rather
than plain latex. Xetex comes with the TeX-live distro, so if you have
that you should be all set to go.
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) characters into some kind of LaTeX commands, I imagine. I've
never tried that.
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been what I thought (the second structure
above was invalid), it would have complained about the title elements
in the chapters instead, assuming it parses top-down.
That eliminates one explanation; I'll look into others. Thanks!
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My
.fo input.
There was also an older program called db2latex, I believe. Might could be that used .fo files as
input; I've never used it.
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haven't tried it). There is no grammar checker, but then I've never seen a grammar
checker that I would consider worth using.
Disclaimer: we use XMLmind a lot, and are happy with it.
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My definition of an interesting universe
On 4/5/2013 4:40 PM, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
Em 05-04-2013 22:16, maxwell escreveu:
One obvious disadvantage is that we've needed to understand LaTeX (not plain
TeX), since many
of the tweaks rely on changes to our LaTeX style sheets, or alternative LaTeX
packages. But
this has been
/
I'm not sure how it handles character encodings; I would guess that it could be
made to preserve
UTF-8 (rather than substituting special LaTeX names), in which case you could
use XeLaTeX to produce
the PDF.
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My definition
t people don't have our needs, so for most of you this
would be overkill.
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he 90’s when we were
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-> PDF
toolchain is inadequate for our purposes.
I currently have a java/maven-based AsciiDoc -> DocBook -> FOP -> PDF chain
within the docbkx-maven-plugin, but would like any suggestions that appear to be better
maintained and are cross platform.
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&qu
), and Dhivehi (Thaana script, also right-to-left), and
Pashto (Naskh variety of Arabic script). But we were using dblatex
(http://dblatex.sourceforge.net) to convert our DocBook source to
XeLaTeX (a Unicode-aware version of LaTeX).
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University of Maryland
On 6/23/2022 10:35 AM, M
mmand line. But you may have no need for that, and pdflatex is
admittedly faster.
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University of Maryland
On 8/6/2022 8:21 AM, Esteban Zimanyi wrote:
I am using dblatex to generate pdf content from docbook source files.
I was able to make programlisting (listings in Latex)
extremely hard to debug. So yes, you can translate
into \lstinline, and that particular transform sounds like it would be
fairly simple.
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University of Maryland
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