Hussein Shafie wrote:
>Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > > >>Je souhaite specifier que les impressions d'une variablelist (DocBook) >>soient representees sous la forme d'une ligne pour le term separe du reste. >> >>Normalement, (et en theorie) la variable termlength indique le # de >>caracteres max d'un terme avant que le formateur passe a la ligne, etant >>entendu que '0' ou '1' indique: "toujours". >> >> >>Exemple: >> >><variablelist termlength="0"> >><varlistentry> >> <term>E001</term> >> <listitem> <para> blabla </para></listitem> >></varlistentry> >> . >> . >> >>= >> >>E001 >> blablablabla.... >> >>E002 >> blublublu.... >> >>Au lieu de : >> >>E001 blablabla.... >>E002 blublublu.... >> >> > >[Quick&dirty translation by xmleditor-support] >I would like to separate the terms from their definitions when printing >DocBook variablelists. In order to do that, I've set the value of >attribute "termlength" to "0". >[End of translation] > > > > > >>Il s'avere que le formatteur -> PDF ou ->PS dispopnible dans votre >>version pro boucle indefiniment. >> >> > > >[Quick&dirty translation by xmleditor-support] >When I do this, the PS/PDF formatter included in your Professional >Edition happens to loop forever. >[End of translation] > >We do not include *any* XSL-FO formatter in our Professional Edition. > >Here's an excerpt of http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/plugins.shtml: >--- >Disclaimer: except for the XFC, APT and Javadoc[TM] plug-ins for XML >Editor which are entirely the work of XMLmind (therefore these plug-ins >are professionally supported by us), XMLmind has created all the other >plug-ins (Batik, Jimi, FOP, XEP) in the hope they are useful, but makes >no claim about their quality or their usefulness. It is important to >understand that XMLmind is just responsible of the integration of these >third party tools in XML Editor (a very thin layer indeed) and that >these plug-ins should not be considered as being part of our product. >--- > > > Missed that point. Please requalify in: "For information: Shipped FOP loops forever when ......". > > > >>Amusant non ? >> >> > >[Quick&dirty translation by xmleditor-support] >Funny isn't it? >[End of translation] > >It depends on your sense of humor. > > Well, you need to have some when you see the XML->"printable document" mess..... and all the 'styles' and brain-damaged tree processors.... ;). > > >--- >PS: If you *always* want to see variablelists formatted like above, I >would suggest to change a parameter in the DocBook XSL style sheets. >This parameter is "variablelist.as.blocks" and it must be set to value >"1". See >http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/docbook_xsl/doc/fo/variablelist.as.blocks.html > >Personally, I've added these specifications to my >~/.xxe/addon/customize.xxe to achieve this: > >--- > <parameterGroup name="docb.toPS.transformParameters"> > <parameter name="variablelist.as.blocks">1</parameter> > </parameterGroup> > > <parameterGroup name="docb.toRTF.transformParameters"> > <parameterGroup name="docb.toPS.transformParameters"/> > </parameterGroup> >--- > >I've attached a ready-to-use customize.xxe to this email. > > Thanks for the hint. I'll proceed on that path. >----- >PS 2: Render XEP does *not* loop forever when termlength="0". However, >the DocBook XSL style sheets does not seem to properly support >termlength="0" and therefore, the resulting PDF is very ugly. > >(But everything works fine with variablelist.as.blocks=1) > > Regarding the FOP shipment and disclaimer you cited above, I don't know precisely what is looping but I can insure you that "something" doesn't terminate when a Termlength is used ;). Want a sample ? (BTW, is there any particular reasons you use English to talk to French peoples ? I thought you was a French company). Thanks for your work.
