Re: [docbook-apps] why does xsltproc create drafts from DocBook XML?

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] why does xsltproc create drafts from DocBook
XML?


> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > To turn off the draft mode entirely, you can set the 'draft.mode'
> > parameter to 'no' on xsltproc's command line:
> >
> > xsltproc --stringparam draft.mode no ...
> >
> > While you are at it, be sure to set the 'fop.extensions' parameter
> > to 1 as well with another --stringparam option.
> > That avoids certain things in the FO output that
> > FOP doesn't handle.
> >
> > You will still get some warnings and such from FOP, but at
> > least you should get PDF output.
>
> Excellent!  These parameters give the best output I've seen sofar.
> Two things could be improved:
>
> 1) Table positioning is poor.  In several cases a table is started near
> the bottom of a page, and should be moved to the next page altogether.  Is
> there a way to influence that?

Not that I know of.

> 2) The Register (Index) of <glossterm>s at the end refers to page 2 in all
> cases.  What can I do about that?  Do I need to run a separate program to
> build an index first?  This is built-in in the toolchain that uses TeX.

I'm not sure what this is. Normally glossterms don't generate page
references.
Is this built from <indexterm> elements in the document?  If so, then it
should
work automatically with correct page references.  Can you provide a sample?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net