DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Help project structure

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
|> 3) Add a template to add a linebreak, for those who like to customize
|>    (If all <p>'s were changed to <br><br>, then you'd never need <p>)
|
| This issue was discussed several times ago.
| Norm, what about adding support for sth. like <?db line-break?> ?

I have an historical fondness for <?lb?>. Sure.

| I can't imagine how to merge automatically generated ToC with manual.
| Solution might be to generate ToC based on some external ToC file --
| user should have possibility to create its own ToC or use current
| automatic generation.

That's what I'm hacking together now.

|> 6) Ability to specify the title of the help project.  Currently, for me, it
|> defaults the title of my first <chapter>.
|
| You probably have all chapters in book. You can set title for this book
| and it will be used. Stylesheets use first title in document to get
| title text. But if there is a demand, I can add parameter for this also.

You should probably <apply-templates select="/*" mode="title.markup"/>

|> 9) A way to manage Help ID's specified in the dbhh PI.  We base our help
[...]
| This is probably impossible to implement directly in XSLT (it will be
| possible if your development environment can save topic ids and names as
| XML file in some common format).

I had assumed that would be possible. I agree, if you can't generate
an XML document that maps the symbolic names to the current numbers,
you're not easily going to do this in XSLT.

(Why do the numbers change? Why isn't HKEY_SOME_ID=4 always and forever 4.
No, nevermind, I probably don't really want to know :-)

|> I'd like to be able to understand chunking for some things I'd like
|> customize.
|
| Me to. ;-)

Sigh. Uhm. I'll try to put something together.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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