Re: AW: [docbook-apps] PDF customization questions from newbie

2011-02-10 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, I'm the dblatex maintainer, so I'm a bit biased, but if you know latex you will be free to customize the latex layout as you wish. I think most of the elements are supported, except the HTML tables. The limitations are those imposed by latex: the latex table limitations, the footnotes

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] ragged index with recent fop snapshots

2011-07-18 Thread ben.guillon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:46:19 +0200, maxwell wrote: Markus Hoenicka wrote: At first sight, I didn't find any information about SVG graphics though. Are they known to work? I don't know. I expect if there's a problem, it would be with LaTeX (or XeLaTeX), not with dblatex. As of a few years a

Re: [docbook-apps] dblatex and FO

2012-03-25 Thread ben.guillon
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:37:14 +0200, Mike Maxwell wrote: On 3/25/2012 2:44 PM, Bob Stayton wrote: I have come across a Makefile that is trying to apply dblatex to an FO file. The Makefile command specifies the .fo file (which was generated from xsltproc in another step) as the input, and

Re: [docbook-apps] Image maps in PDF output

2012-05-07 Thread ben.guillon
FYI, dblatex supports callouts on images (see http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/example/dblatex/example.pdf, section 5.1). The only constraint to have relevant coordinates. Regards, BG On Mon, 07 May 2012 16:29:16 +0200, Tyson Marchuk wrote: Hi Bob, Thank you. I guess I'll have to do some

Re: [docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook)

2015-09-16 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, It seems that xelatex is not found when dblatex tries to run it. To check what happens, append -V to the dblatex command to print out the actual command runned that fails. We can investigate further but I suggest to switch to the dblatex mailing list for this. Regards, BG On Wed, 16

Re: [docbook-apps] SGML to XML conversion: workaround for SYSTEM entities

2016-10-03 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, I would suggest to use XInclude with XPointer that can point to a specific , , or any other elements written somewhere else: Description xpointer="xpointer(id('pi-texmath-user'))" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; /> You can aways put identifiers in the b

[docbook-apps] [ANN] XSL Coverage scripts

2016-11-08 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, For your information, I've packaged a few python scripts and a java plugin for Saxon to compute and visualize the coverage of XSL stylesheets when processed on documents with saxon (currently tested with saxon 6.5.5). It's available here: https://github.com/marsgui/xslcoverage/tree/mas

Re: [docbook-apps] [ANN] XSL Coverage scripts

2016-11-11 Thread ben.guillon
, ben.guillon wrote: Hi, For your information, I've packaged a few python scripts and a java plugin for Saxon to compute and visualize the coverage of XSL stylesheets when processed on documents with saxon (currently tested with saxon 6.5.5). It's available here: https://github.c

Re: [docbook-apps] [ANN] XSL Coverage scripts

2016-11-13 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, I've updated in github to support saxon9HE, but it's not in a tagged release yet. to use it: xslcoverage report run saxon9he [saxon options and args] Note that I've noticed some regressions in tracing since release 6.5.5. The side effect is that some covered instructions appear as not

Re: [docbook-apps] Gradle build cross-platform - trouble with Saxon 6.5.5 params under Windows

2017-08-11 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 06:14:04 +0200, Peter Desjardins wrote: Question #2 is: Has anyone had trouble using Saxon9HE with the DocBook XSLT v1.0 stylesheets? The way the arguments for the later version of Saxon are structured work much better with Gradle. (-o:myoutputfile.xml.) Just my fe

[docbook-apps] Empty link in no.anchor.mode mode

2007-07-23 Thread ben.guillon
Hello, I've been trying to use the up to date Docbook Project common stylesheets, in order to add olink and powerful xref features in dblatex. I've a section title containing a like this: Only a link in it [endterm="ch04short">] ... And: The link content is empty in the produced

Re: [docbook-apps] Empty link in no.anchor.mode mode

2007-07-23 Thread ben.guillon
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:15:34 -0700, Bob Stayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it is a bug. That template for "link" in mode="no.anchor.mode" is too simple. It does not take into account the endterm text that should be generated in this case. The idea is to generate the text without

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] default attributes

2007-08-21 Thread ben.guillon
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:42:21 +0200, Hinrich Aue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Contentwidth=100%, contentdepth=100% and scalefit=1 make the images scale to it's intrinsic size, but reduces their size if they are to big. It is not the behaviour defined in TDG. When the content area is specifi

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook to text (solution)

2008-06-11 Thread ben.guillon
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:48 +0200, W. Martin Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I found a solution, that is acceptable for me. Criticism and help welcome! It's mainly: An interesting feature would be to be able to transform DocBook to reSt. There's already docutils-native XML->docbook

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook with Math ML/Latex => PDF

2008-10-20 Thread ben.guillon
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:49:51 +0200, Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK there is no 'recommended' way to get mathml (either kind) embedded into docbook... yet. DocBook already addresses MathML, through a derived DTD, at least for DocBook 4.X (http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook//xm

Re: [docbook-apps] Tables stop flowing with text

2008-10-23 Thread ben.guillon
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:21:20 +0200, Watkins, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using dblatex and pdflatex to make PDFs from a docbook file.The problem I'm running into is that if I put many small tables on a page, eventually the tables will separate from the paragraphs they're in and they'l

Re: [docbook-apps] issue with olinks, sitemaps, and fo stylesheets ?

2009-05-30 Thread ben.guillon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 20:48:29 +0200, Stefan Seefeld wrote: Any idea what may have caused this ? I'm using xsltproc --xinclude (and xinclude processing of the docbook sources works fine, only the target db files aren't read in. Try to add the option --xincludestyle. Regards, BG -

Re: [docbook-apps] Cannot resolve imagedata element's fileref attribute using modular docbook and XInclude

2009-10-14 Thread ben.guillon
Hi Bob, Thanks for the hints that helped me in fixing easily the bug. Regards, BG On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:41:22 +0200, Bob Stayton wrote: Do you know if dblatex knows how to resolve xml:base attributes? If not, then that is where it is going wrong. When XInclude pulls in content from ano

Re: [docbook-apps] Creating a documentation set with separate book outputs

2010-05-12 Thread ben.guillon
Hi, dblatex does that on s: it builds a PDF per book, with it's own TOC, index, in each. Cross-linking between books work too. Regards, BG On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:20:39 +0200, Peter Desjardins wrote: Hi All, I have a large book that I would like to split up into several smaller, interl

Re: [docbook-apps] Escape DTD snippet

2011-01-06 Thread ben.guillon
Use CDATA sections: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:15:43 +0100, Susanne Wunsch wrote: Hello, I really enjoy writing specifications with DocBook, currently using dblatex for transformation to PDF. I searched for a possibility to quote DTD snippets tha