DOCBOOK-APPS: How can I get stylesheet to bold?

2001-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Franks
1) Problem Description: How can I get the html style sheet to bold for markup emphasis role=strong ? 2) DocBook Xml DTD: V4.1.2 3) DocBook Style: V1.41 4) Style Sheet: html xtchunk.xsl 5) Xt: V19991105 under Xae 6) Xp: V0.5 under Xae 7) Xae: V1.0

DOCBOOK-APPS: How can I specify monofont for markup type

2001-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Franks
1) Problem Description: What do I have to change in the stylesheet to get a monofont for type markup. As it is, the font does not appear to be different from the rest of the text. This is true for a various other markups rendered in HTML. I don't know much about Xsl stylesheets, but that is

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,

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

DOCBOOK-APPS: About FO (was db2latex)

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: FOP: java, changing constantly, getting better. a typical open source non-stable project (thats not a criticism) XEP: from RenderX, a slightly unusual small company who are really interested in big contracts not individual sales. more stable,

DOCBOOK-APPS: Is rowsep over-ride in entry broken?

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
1) Problem Description: I can't seem to get cell over-ride to work within a table, such as: entry rowsep=0 Is this broke? 2) DocBook Xml DTD: V4.1.2 3) DocBook Style: V1.41 4) Style Sheet: html xtchunk.xsl 5) Xt: V19991105 under Xae 6) Xp: V0.5 under Xae

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

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: Jeffrey Franks writes: summary: immature marketplace. I'm a newbie trying to get a lay of the landscape too. Is Sgml/Dsssl a better approach to produce PDF with less pain? not really, because there you have have just one processor to choose from

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

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Jirka Kosek wrote: Nico Morgan wrote: Is there an XSL template for RTF output? Actually not, but you may use DSSSL stylesheet and Jade to get RTF. Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with PDF is to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice

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

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Jirka Kosek wrote: Jeffrey Franks wrote: Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a table intensive document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF somehow. My expectation is that it would look like a real book, with a real index, and not look ugly. May be using

DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie is heard to say:It looks like spanspec missing from Xsl 1.41

2001-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Hi, Since I'm having all kinds of table trouble I decided to poke around Xsl 1.41 with my exception Xml/Xsl/Xslt knowledge of one month. AFAIK, looks like spanspec is totally missing. Then again I'm a newbie and might have this wrong. Any takers? -- Jeffrey L. Franks (Web)

DOCBOOK-APPS: CalsTbl model -- OASIS Open Exchange model migration,think I figured it out.

2001-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Please check my solution regarding column spans under Open Exchange model: !-- spanspec spanname=hspan namest=c1 nameend=c2 align=left -- entry namest=c1 nameend=c2 align=left This seems to work for HTML. Does it work for PDF too? Do you see any other gotcha's? -- Jeffrey L. Franks (Web)

DOCBOOK-APPS: How can I markup BNF w/ description paragraphs renderinglike variablelist ??

2001-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Franks
I've just received a requirement to document a grammar with Backus-Naur Form (BNF). The example given shows several BNF definitions, each one having a description paragraph very much like a variablelist rendering. A variablelist can't be used however, because term does not allow a verbatum

DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie still has 3 trouble spots - Centering images,chunking per page, FOP broke

2001-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Hi, Can someone help me with the following three problem areas? Here is the front part of the book.xml file... ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? !DOCTYPE book PUBLIC -//Arbortext//DTD DocBk XML V2.0//EN file:home/jlf/xae/xae/doctypes/docbook/docbookx.dtd [ !ENTITY ora O'Reilly amp;

DOCBOOK-APPS: Which markup for X Resources ?

2001-06-17 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Hi, Can someone suggest the right markup for X Resources items? For example, would a discussion of an XmFontList resource be marked up with property or symbol or maybe something else? -- Jeff

DOCBOOK-APPS: Q. DocBook and PSGML using split document

2001-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Hi, I couldn't find a PSGML for dummies for the following question. DocBook provides a way scaling up a document and breaking it into pieces and identifying the pieces with entities that have the actual file name. The problem is that I can't edit the pieces because the DOCTYPE declaration is