Hi Chris. On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:29 +0100, C. Grobmeier wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > i think you are using Version 0.7, right?
No, 0.8dev > > > However since most of our source documents will be or are native html or > > xhtml1 we use Nvu to edit and finish these documents and we use our own > > css-stylesheet. > > See this: > http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#skins seems to be promising! > > Please open then skinconf.xml in your editor. Pay attention to the > extra-css section. In the documentation in this file has been written: > > "extra-css - here you can define custom css-elements that are > A) overriding the fallback elements or > B) adding the css definition from new elements that you may have > used in your documentation." > > In Addition, you maybe like this link: > http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-editcss.html Never used that plugin but I will try. However the Howto mentioned at the bottom of the page is nowhere. > > Is this true and are we forced to write xml? > > You will find this link helpful (make: forrest run before): > http://forrest.apache.org/dtdx/document-v20.dtdx.html Fine, I will study that if I got more time... Currently I am using the extra-css ( not very straight forward) and modify html-to-document.xml (arrg, changing the sources). But I will follow your links and see what happens. Thanks a lot Thomas > > Depending on what document format you are using, you can use elements > from this dtd. Beware, i don't know if v20 is available for forrest 0.7. > > > However writing xml requires a good editor to avoid going to much into > > detail in xml... > > I have only basics of XML knowledge but didn't catch up any problems. > > The other questions are for the experts ;-) > Regards, > Chris > > > A last question: I am willing to learn in this area but I need a > > starting point. > > It seems that the file html-to-document.xsl plays a big role in that > > case. > > How can I test what is done here? > > Is there an intepreter running (I am using linux) or who is doing the > > translation since the xsl-file seems to be just the receipt how to do > > the word. I am looking for the cook. > > > > I tested with xhtml(1) too but this just returns an empty page after > > skinning. > > > > Any help is appreciated > > > > Thanks > > > > Thomas -- Thomas Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
