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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Building books with variables in them
/ Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com> was heard to say: | 1. pass parameters in from the command line so I can change things like | the latest version through a command line switch | | Can I do this? If I understand you right, you want the value of a command-line parameter to appear in the printed book. You can't do that directly, but with a little shell scripting, you can get what you want. Create your book like this: <!DOCTYPE book ... [ <!ENTITY version SYSTEM "version.sgm"> ]> <book> ... <para>This is version &version;.</para> And then write a little shell script wrapper or something that takes a command line argument and writes it into the file "version.sgm". | 2. Graphics look better on the printed page if they are scaled to 50-60 | percent, but on a web site they look better as a thumbnail that the | user clicks on to get the full image. | | How can I arrange it so I get different things happening with HTML vs | PDF? This is a little trickier. You can switch between PNG and EPS or something like that easily, but if you want to add linking and thumbnails, you'll probably need a little stylesheet customization. | 3. Depending on who the documentation is for, I want different cover pages, | headers and footers, etc. Different stylesheet customization layers can do this for you. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | If you are hankering after http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | certainty, you are better advised Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | to seek it in religion: the | stock-in-trade of science is not | certainty but doubt.--K.C. Cole
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