[docbook-apps] blank lines when trying to generate custom titlepage with xsltproc

2010-12-09 Thread Matt Dew
Hi all, I'm trying to generate a custom title from an xml file. I've followed the guides at: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitlePageNewElems.html http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/styling/custom.html#TitlepageContent

[docbook-apps] SOLVED - Re: [docbook-apps] blank lines when trying to generate custom titlepage with xsltproc

2010-12-10 Thread Matt Dew
tried? Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: Matt Dew m...@osource.org To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:28 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] blank lines when trying to generate custom titlepage

[docbook-apps] crosslinking between pdf documents

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Dew
Hi all, I've got a collection of docs to be outputted in pdf (and html) and the docs contain links to other docs in the collection. I've got olink working with the html. It links correctly with chunk and no-chunk. I'm can't get the links to work between pdf docs though.It opens the first

Re: [docbook-apps] crosslinking between pdf documents

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Dew
/tracker/?func=detailaid=3029845group_id=21935atid=373747 Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: Matt Dew m...@osource.org To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:32 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] crosslinking

Re: [docbook-apps] crosslinking between pdf documents - followup

2010-12-22 Thread Matt Dew
Bob, I downloaded 1.76.1 last night. using it and insert.olink.pdf-frag=1, it works! on local filesystem and in webpages. thanks again! Matt On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Matt Dew m...@osource.org wrote: Bob,  Thanks for the info! neither gentoo nor ubuntu has 1.76.1 packaged yet

[docbook-apps] problem with fop literal and soft-hyphen

2011-01-25 Thread Matt Dew
Hi all, We have tables of special characters and the key sequences needed to get them. For example: Multi_key plus plus = # numbersign Multi_key apostrophe space= ' apostrophe ... rowentrykeycombo

[docbook-apps] MathML in docbook 4.3 errors

2011-03-15 Thread Matt Dew
Hi all, We're trying to use mathml for some equations in some of our xml docs but we keep getting 'failed to load external entities' errors. mathmldb.dtd is installed locally but it doesn't seem to matter. Is it not possible to embed mathml within a docbook (book or article) file? Does it

Re: [docbook-apps] MathML in docbook 4.3 errors

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Dew
Hi Mauritz, Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the delay in replying. I didn't see this until now. Are you sure that there is an entry for the public or system ID for dbmathml.dtd in the catalog file? This was part of the problem. I had to add them to the catalog:

Re: [docbook-apps] MathML in docbook 4.3 errors

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Dew
On 03/29/2011 02:08 PM, Mauritz Jeanson wrote: | -Original Message- | From: Matt Dew | | The html and txt look good but the pdf doesn't. | | fop now gives me these warnings: | Mar 29, 2011 12:05:23 PM org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMappingRegistry | findFOMaker | WARNING: Unknown

[docbook-apps] Unable to indent text in text output

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Dew
Hi all, I have some text that i want to indent. I'm using id attributes in the xml and then using the css and xsl files. I can get the pdf and html outputs to work fine, but I cannot figure out how to get the text output to indent. ... para role='box'This text should be indented/para ...

Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to indent text in text output

2011-03-30 Thread Matt Dew
Hi Aankhen, Thanks for the reply. On 03/30/2011 01:28 AM, Aankhen wrote: Hi Matt, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:03, Matt Dewmar...@osource.org wrote: Hi all, I have some text that i want to indent. I'm using id attributes in the xml and then using the css and xsl files. I can get the pdf

Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to indent text in text output -- SOLVED

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Dew
Hi Aankhen, Woohoo! I figured it out. solution below. snip Here’s my xsl file: -- ?xml version='1.0' encoding=utf-8? xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; version=1.0 xsl:import

Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to indent text in text output -- SOLVED

2011-04-01 Thread Matt Dew
Hi Aankhen, snip Thank you very much! Glad I could help. :-) There’s something I don’t understand, though: you say that you already do #3 for HTML output; why not do it for XHTML as well? :-S Why do it this way? (Also, if you’re producing XHTML, you probably want to close that ‘br’.)

Re: [docbook-apps] Tips for DB Users for Tool Chain (Linux): xsltproc, fop 1.0 [html and pdf]

2011-04-07 Thread Matt Dew
On 04/07/2011 12:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm not sure it's been pointed out here recently, but two common requirements for good looking docs now have work-arounds for the subject tool chain: 1. centering tables (using Bob Stayton's suggestion for PI dbfo and css for html) 2. good looking

[docbook-apps] setting a particular table's column widths with xsl

2011-04-08 Thread Matt Dew
Hi again all, I've got a particular type of table that I want to set column widths on via xsl rather than having to do it in the xml source. The reason is that I have _lots_ of xml files that will use this type of table and I don't want to have to maintain this if/when we change the table

Re: [docbook-apps] setting a particular table's column widths with xsl

2011-04-17 Thread Matt Dew
Message - From: Matt Dew mar...@osource.org To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:35 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] setting a particular table's column widths with xsl Hi again all, I've got a particular type of table that I want to set column widths on via xsl rather