Kurt Andrews wrote:
>
> This is another question where I just don't know enough to know where
> to start. I suspect that the solution is somewhere in the xsl layer,
> but I don't enough to be sure. I'm using docbook and renderX to
> produce the final documents in pdf format so this could end up being a
> docbook or renderx question more than an xxe question. Maybe I should
> be using your FO converter instead of renderx...
Our FO Converter creates RTF and WordML.
RenderX XEP creates PDF and PostScript.
You cannot substitute one for the other.
> Is there a high level
> drawing or something that shows how all this fits together.
You need to convert DocBook to PDF:
[1] Install the add-on for that (FOP or RenderX)
[2] Use DocBook|Convert|Convert to PDF.
So far, so good.
Now, if you don't like how the PDF looks like, then you are in *trouble*
because you'll have to dive into the XSL style sheets which are used to
convert DocBook to XSL-FO (after that, RenderX, FOP, XMLmind FO
Converter, etc, converts XSL-FO to something else).
DocBook --[XSLT engine]--> XSL-FO --[XSL-FO processor]--> What you want
(Saxon*, (RenderX*,
xsltproc, Antenna House,
Xalan) FOP*,
XMLmind FO Converter*)
Software marked by an asterisk "*" may be used by XXE, and this
transparently for the user.
XSLT = http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
XSL-FO = http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/
Customizing the way the DocBook XSL stylesheets are used by XXE is
described here:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html
and especially here:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/custom_params.html
and here:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/custom_params.html#custom_xslt
Moreover, the add-on "A customized configuration for the DocBook DTD"
has been created to give you a quick start.
> I'm trying to accomplish the following
>
> 1. Control page breaks so that I can do things like start the table of
> contents that's generated on a new page, and start each top level
> section on a new page and add new pages between sub-sections as needed.
>
> 2. I use these documents as lecture handouts and I'd like to do
> something similar to the way that I've used MS Word. I put my speaking
> notes in comments and then for the handouts I turn markup off to print
> the documents for the audience, and turn markup on to print the copy
> that I will speak from. I'm thinking that the solution is to choose a
> specific element to use for my speaking notes and then create two xsls
> one that puts the element in the document and one that doesn't. I'm
> just not sure if someone has solved this problem before me or not. It
> seems like a lot of work and I don't feel comfortable hijacking docbook
> elements for my own purposes.
>
> If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/docbook_xsl/doc/index.html
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/
