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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: the middle third
I'm using DocBook 4.1.2 with OpenJade 1.39 and Norm Walsh's Excellent Modular DSSSL Stylesheets (most recent version), and the case in hand involves rendering with HTML engines (e.g., Netscape). I'd like to customize the stylesheets, or otherwise alter the default rendering of a book document type, to wrap the main apparatus (navbars and primary content) between two columns, each one-third of the rendered area. The outside columns, and their content, will be static. Given the nonconformant state of the rendering engines, it appears I'll have to do what I want by wrapping everything between <body> and </body> in <table><etc>...</etc></table>, rather than using a more elegant solution, e.g., an <object> tag referencing an external html file before the body content end. Would anybody point me in the right direction? I understand the customization procedure, in terms of how to do it without altering the original files, but I'm not sure what to customize: html-body-content-start seems to be the right target, and therefore the file dbhtml.dsl. Is that on the right track? TIA -- James Eric Lawson Research Publications Editor III National Simulation Resource eric@bioeng.washington.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921]
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