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Subject: docbook-apps-digest Digest #441

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: First page of a PDF
RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Versioning
DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Best authoring environments for publishing thousands
 of Web pages in XML
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Best authoring environments for publishing
 thousands of Web pages in XML
DOCBOOK-APPS: Emacs/PSGML/flyspell query
DOCBOOK-APPS: Special Characters in XML?
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Emacs/PSGML/flyspell query
DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Best authoring environments for publishing thousands
 of Web pages in XML
DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Emacs/PSGML/flyspell query
DOCBOOK-APPS: diffmk and the revhistory element
DOCBOOK-APPS: missing some java classes running FOP
RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing some java classes running FOP
DOCBOOK-APPS: Does anyone have the dtd.xml file for the Kate XML
 plugin?
RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing some java classes running FOP
DOCBOOK-APPS: how to upgrade docbook XSL stylesheets?
DOCBOOK-APPS: FYI - my 'makefaq' program now exports DocBook XML
RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: how to upgrade docbook XSL stylesheets?
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Special Characters in XML?
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: how to upgrade docbook XSL stylesheets?
DOCBOOK-APPS: Character entities
RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Character entities
DOCBOOK-APPS: Posts not being delivered...
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:40:54PM +0100, Guillaume Oblin wrote:
> Hi.
>  
> 1) By default the first page generated on a PDF have only the book
> title, but I want to put a logo and a copyright on this same page. And
> have this page sequence: book title (first page), TOC, chapiter1.

You can get information for customizing title pages at:

http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/PrintCustomEx.html#TitlePagePrint

To skip the verso titlepage completely, your stylesheet
customization layer should include this null template:

<xsl:template name="book.titlepage.verso" />

>  
> 2) After is it possible to no write the page number (Like IV ) in the
> footer of the TOC?

Information on customizing print headers and footer is at:

http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/PrintCustomEx.html#PrintHeaders
  
> 3) And my last problem is that I use a lot of screenshots in my PDF (and
> CHM), and the scaling function don't work with FOP, have you any idea of
> how can I do this?

FOP image scaling only responds to the 'width' attribute
on imagedata or graphic.  And then, it must be set to
a number with dimension, such as '14cm'.  This is not
the correct behavior, but it is the only thing that
works in FOP, including the most recent fop-0.20.5rc2
from 18 February.

-- 

Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
The SCO Group                               fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@sco.com



Gisbert,

We are in the process of building just such a version management system
(although for technical documentation) using Apache Slide.  If you would
like, perhaps it would be best to discuss this off the list.

Cheers!
Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Gisbert Amm [mailto:gia@webde-ag.de]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:08 AM
To: 'Mark Brand'; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Versioning


> I have a question about versioning of DocBook documents. 

> Some Background Info:
> I have a master copy of government legislation (called an Act)  in DocBook
format. Now the > guvment makes amendments to the Act (An amendment is a
textual change to the original Act  > - could  be  Addition, Removal or
Modification of text). What I am required to do is 
> supply a consolidated act (i.e The Original Act + all amendments) and also
supply a means > by which users can see the Act at a point in time. 
>
> It appears to be a similar problem to that of software version management.
>
That's quite right.

> Questions:
> Does DocBook have any facility to manage this type of versioning?
> Does anyone know of any tools that can be integrated into a current
browser based 
> application to solve this problem?
> Does anyone have any idea of the best way to solve this problem?

Perhaps you could use the 'role' attribute for this purpose, but you'll
probably end up duplicating parts of the text.

I'd suggest a version management tool like CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/). 

You could tag every version and check out the different versions into
different files / directories to create the documents from.

Regards
Gisbert Amm



>>>>> Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>:

> We keep the XML source files on a Linux system in CVS.  We let our
> authors export their working CVS directory as a Samba share.

Do you see any line ending confusion with this approach?  Are the CVS
checkout done from Windows or linux?



On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:41:40PM +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>:
> 
> > We keep the XML source files on a Linux system in CVS.  We let our
> > authors export their working CVS directory as a Samba share.
> 
> Do you see any line ending confusion with this approach?  Are the CVS
> checkout done from Windows or linux?

We do the checkout on Linux, and open the files in XMetal
from the Samba share.  XMetal seems to handle the
line endings ok.  For those who want to examine the
xml text on Windows, I tell them to get Cygwin with
vim, which handles different line endings.

-- 

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Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
The SCO Group                               fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@sco.com



Hi,

Does anybody know if Emacs/PSGML using flyspell/ispell can recognize and avoid
XML markup when spell checking? If so, how do you accomplish it?

Regards,
Stefan


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I used the demo of upCast to convert some RTFs to DocBook (it worked
great by the way!). However, it converted some of the characters from
this &#160; to their equivelant, which then failed out as I continued
the process to convert to FO and then PDF.

I changed the encoding to US-ASCII in the stylesheet that produces the
FO, so that it remained &#160; in the FO file, however, when I try to go
to PDF, I get an [ERROR] null, and the error is "
org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyManager.getTextDecoration(PropertyManager.java:328)".

So I'm guessing that Apache FOP can't figure out how to go convert those
special characters.

Any suggestions?


Brian




Hi Stefan,

You wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know if Emacs/PSGML using flyspell/ispell can recognize and avoid
> XML markup when spell checking? If so, how do you accomplish it?
> 
> Regards,
> Stefan
> 

I think you can just put this in your .emacs:

  (setq ispell-skip-sgml t)



>>>>> Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>:

> We do the checkout on Linux, and open the files in XMetal from the
> Samba share.  XMetal seems to handle the line endings ok. 

Ie. it saves the files with the same line endings as it detected when
opening them?  What happens with new files?

For CVS to work well it's important that text files in the repository
has UNIX line endings.

> For those who want to examine the xml text on Windows, I tell them
> to get Cygwin with vim, which handles different line endings.

Another possibility is the Win32 version (ie. non-cygwin) of GNU
Emacs, which also handles different line endings.

It's also possible to make CygWin operate with DOS line endings on
text files, and do the CVS checkout from Windows:
	<URL:http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE >

This is btw what I do when testing Win32 based Authoring tools like
eg. Authentic.  My current editing takes place with Emacs/psgml on
linux.

Looks like XMetal has the possibility for a trial download.  But even
if it does check out as a possible DocBook XML editing tool, it has a
pretty steep price, with around USD500 a piece.



>>>>> Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>:

>> Does anybody know if Emacs/PSGML using flyspell/ispell can
>> recognize and avoid XML markup when spell checking? If so, how do
>> you accomplish it?

> I think you can just put this in your .emacs:

>   (setq ispell-skip-sgml t)

I'm doing it this way:

(defun my-sgml-set-local-variables ()
  "Set buffer-local variables when loading an XML/SGML file."
  (set (make-local-variable 'ispell-skip-sgml) t)
  (set (make-local-variable 'ispell-skip-html) t))

(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook my-sgml-set-local-variables)

I don't remember why I did it this way.  Presumably because I didn't
wish to have these ispell settings outside of the buffers were it was
relevant. 

The reason I'm setting both ispell-skip-sgml and ispell-skip-html, is
that different emacsen used different variables here.



Bonjour,

I have been playing with Norm's diffmk to build a diff'd XML and I am using 
xsltproc with changebars.xsl to get colors and strikethrough in the HTML 
transformation.

I am quite pleased with the results I get, but I could not find the way to make 
it work on the revhistory, revision, revremark elements. It does not work either 
with other meta info elements I have in bookinfo or articleinfo such as 
pubnumber, pubdate. These are elements that are good candidates for indicating 
edits.

The changes are marked in the diff'd XML (diffmk works fine) but the 
transformation does not produce any color-coded diff for these elements.

Is it hopeless? :)

Tilly








  i downloaded the latest FOP from xml.apache.org, and installed
what i thought was everything i needed around it (Jimi, the newer
xalan in the endorsed/ directory and so on), but when i run FOP
to convert a .fo file to .pdf, i get:

[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5rc2
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[ERROR] property - "background-position-horizontal" is not implemented yet.
[ERROR] property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet.
[INFO] Failed to load JAI, using Jimi instead
[ERROR] Unknown formatting object http://www.tug.org/fotex^bookmark
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ranges/DocumentRange
	at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.newDocument(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.fop.fo.XMLObj.createBasicDocument(XMLObj.java:112)
	at org.apache.fop.fo.UnknownXMLObj.addCharacters(UnknownXMLObj.java:79)
	at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.characters(FOTreeBuilder.java:161)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.characters(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanContent(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:457)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:69)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19)


  so what have i failed to install?

rday




The first error (unknown formatting object
http://www.tug.org/fotex^bookmark) indicates that you have
passivetex.extensions turned on.  I don't see why this would trigger the
NoClassDefFoundError for the class in question, but it might.  The class
it's not finding is part of the W3C DOM library, which is included as
standard in Java 1.4.  FOP may have begun to assume 1.4 without telling
people.

Jeff Beal

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:49 AM
To: docbook apps list
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: missing some java classes running FOP



  i downloaded the latest FOP from xml.apache.org, and installed
what i thought was everything i needed around it (Jimi, the newer
xalan in the endorsed/ directory and so on), but when i run FOP
to convert a .fo file to .pdf, i get:

[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5rc2
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[ERROR] property - "background-position-horizontal" is not implemented yet.
[ERROR] property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet.
[INFO] Failed to load JAI, using Jimi instead
[ERROR] Unknown formatting object http://www.tug.org/fotex^bookmark
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/w3c/dom/ranges/DocumentRange
	at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.newDocument(Unknown
Source)
	at org.apache.fop.fo.XMLObj.createBasicDocument(XMLObj.java:112)
	at
org.apache.fop.fo.UnknownXMLObj.addCharacters(UnknownXMLObj.java:79)
	at
org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.characters(FOTreeBuilder.java:161)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.characters(Unknown
Source)
	at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanContent(Unknown
Source)
	at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc
her.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:457)
	at
org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:69)
	at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19)


  so what have i failed to install?

rday





I tried to convert the dtd using the dtdparse perl program but I got
errors.

Brian




On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jeff Beal wrote:

> The first error (unknown formatting object
> http://www.tug.org/fotex^bookmark) indicates that you have
> passivetex.extensions turned on.  I don't see why this would trigger the
> NoClassDefFoundError for the class in question, but it might.  The class
> it's not finding is part of the W3C DOM library, which is included as
> standard in Java 1.4.  FOP may have begun to assume 1.4 without telling
> people.

i'm not sure i understand your second statement.  i'm using sun's
latest (1.4.1-02) jdk, and the latest FOP, 0.20.5rc2.  so what
does this imply?  and can i work around it?

rday





  is there anything to upgrading to a newer set of docbook
XSL stylesheets besides just downloading the tarball and 
installing it in the right place?  it seems fairly obvious, 
but one never knows.  

  i have a RH 8.0 system with the salient directories

  /usr/share/sgml/docbook/
			  xsl-stylesheets->xsl-stylesheets-1.50.0-3

  is it just a case of untarring the new stylesheets into the
same directory (with name docbook-xsl-1.60.1), and resetting
the generic link?

  just trying not to make a mess of things right off the bat.
i'll have plenty of time for that later.

rday

p.s.  i went looking for an RPM of the new stuff, but found
a "docbook-xsl-129-1" at www.rpmfind.net.  not sure what that's
all about, but i'm pretty sure i don't want it.




Purely FYI, back in November[1] I released a new version of my 
'makefaq' program that exports from its very simple FAQ format
into a DocBook XML <qandaset>.  I did this mostly because I liked
storing a FAQ in makefaq's simple format:

  <c>General<q>What does the data file look like?
  <a>A plain text file.  Each entry has a category, a question
  and an answer and can span multiple lines and include HTML.

but yet I wanted to generate a PDF file. Now, I know I could have used
any of the zillion tools out there that can go from HTML into PDF, but
hey, I'll confess to being a DocBook geek and it seemed like it would be
simple to do (it was).  So now when you type:

  ./makefaq.py -c DocBookXML

you wind up with a DocBook <qandaset> in a file (default file name
is'faq-output.xml').  Run it through your favorite XSLT and FO processors
and.. ta da.. a PDF file. (or go into whatever other format you want)

I just thought I'd mention this... nothing for anybody to do... unless
anyone wants to give me any feedback on my <qandaset> output. :-)  If you
do want to see the program, it's at:

  http://www.makefaq.org/

Just thought I'd pass along another program using DocBook,
Dan

[1] Someone just recently pointed out to me that I never really
    told anyone I had added the DocBook XML export, so now I am. :-)
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That's all it takes.  Of course, depending on what you have in your
customization layer, you may have some changes to do.  For example, if I
customize the refentry template and Bob re-writes that template in the
latest distribution, I need to go through a bit of work to merge my changes
with Bob's to be sure that everything still works.  If you're customization
layer is simple enough (like just setting some parameters), you probably
won't have any problems.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:49 PM
To: docbook apps list
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: how to upgrade docbook XSL stylesheets?



  is there anything to upgrading to a newer set of docbook
XSL stylesheets besides just downloading the tarball and 
installing it in the right place?  it seems fairly obvious, 
but one never knows.  

  i have a RH 8.0 system with the salient directories

  /usr/share/sgml/docbook/
			  xsl-stylesheets->xsl-stylesheets-1.50.0-3

  is it just a case of untarring the new stylesheets into the
same directory (with name docbook-xsl-1.60.1), and resetting
the generic link?

  just trying not to make a mess of things right off the bat.
i'll have plenty of time for that later.

rday

p.s.  i went looking for an RPM of the new stuff, but found
a "docbook-xsl-129-1" at www.rpmfind.net.  not sure what that's
all about, but i'm pretty sure i don't want it.



On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:43:03AM -0500, Brian Burridge wrote:
> I used the demo of upCast to convert some RTFs to DocBook (it worked
> great by the way!). However, it converted some of the characters from
> this &#160; to their equivelant, which then failed out as I continued
> the process to convert to FO and then PDF.

To their equivalent what?
 
> I changed the encoding to US-ASCII in the stylesheet that produces the
> FO, so that it remained &#160; in the FO file, however, when I try to go
> to PDF, I get an [ERROR] null, and the error is "
> org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyManager.getTextDecoration(PropertyManager.java:328)".
> 
> So I'm guessing that Apache FOP can't figure out how to go convert those
> special characters.

FOP has no trouble converting &#160; in my tests
(versions 0.20.4 and 0.20.5rc2).
Perhaps this error is coming from something else?

-- 

Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
The SCO Group                               fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@sco.com



On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> p.s.  i went looking for an RPM of the new stuff, but found a
> "docbook-xsl-129-1" at www.rpmfind.net.  not sure what that's all
> about, but i'm pretty sure i don't want it.

You can just 'rpmbuild --rebuild' this:

ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/docbook-style-xsl-1.60.1-1.src.rpm

Tim.
*/

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Hello,

Tiny question: When I try to render a simple Docbook article, made in
XMLSpy, FOP states: Entity 'euml' not defined

Somewhere in my XML is the text: defini&euml;ren

How can I configure FOP to use these entities?

Thnx in advance.

Jeroen. 


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> Hello,
> 
> Tiny question: When I try to render a simple Docbook article, made in
> XMLSpy, FOP states: Entity 'euml' not defined
> 
> Somewhere in my XML is the text: defini&euml;ren
> 
> How can I configure FOP to use these entities?
You have to declare the entity before using it. E.g.:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN'
'docbookx.dtd' [
<!ENTITY euml 'your_definition_here'>
]>

Regards
Gisbert Amm



I've noticed that since February 21, I no longer receive messages from
Bob Stayton to the docbook-apps or docbook mailing lists. I also didn't
receive Mike Smith's recent posting. I.e. I see their posts in the
archives, but they were never delivered to me. I checked with our IT
dept, and they are unable to find evidence that the missing messages
ever reached our servers. Has anybody else noticed anything like this? 

Thanks,
David



I noticed something similar. I got a lot of mails discussing Bob's 
replies, without having got Bob's original mails. Then, a couple of days 
later, suddenly I got a burst of mails (say 10-15) consisting of Bob's 
missing ones.

Patrick

David Cramer schrieb:
> I've noticed that since February 21, I no longer receive messages from
> Bob Stayton to the docbook-apps or docbook mailing lists. I also didn't
> receive Mike Smith's recent posting. I.e. I see their posts in the
> archives, but they were never delivered to me. I checked with our IT
> dept, and they are unable to find evidence that the missing messages
> ever reached our servers. Has anybody else noticed anything like this? 
> 
> Thanks,
> David




I've had the same sort of thing happen.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Eisenacher [mailto:eisenacher@fillmore-labs.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:24 PM
To: David Cramer
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Posts not being delivered...


I noticed something similar. I got a lot of mails discussing Bob's 
replies, without having got Bob's original mails. Then, a couple of days 
later, suddenly I got a burst of mails (say 10-15) consisting of Bob's 
missing ones.

Patrick

David Cramer schrieb:
> I've noticed that since February 21, I no longer receive messages from
> Bob Stayton to the docbook-apps or docbook mailing lists. I also didn't
> receive Mike Smith's recent posting. I.e. I see their posts in the
> archives, but they were never delivered to me. I checked with our IT
> dept, and they are unable to find evidence that the missing messages
> ever reached our servers. Has anybody else noticed anything like this? 
> 
> Thanks,
> David

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