Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How Do I Customize Stylesheets?

[Eric Richardson <eric.richardson@milagrosoft.com>]

Bob Stayton wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:04:14PM +0200, Anja Schwarzpaul wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>my current task is to set up a documentation process for my company. The
>>goal is to produce print and HTML formats with conditional content. The
>>process should be platform independent and single source so it wasn't
>>long before I ran into DocBook.
>>
>>I started out with basic XML knowledge and have learned XSL, XPath, FO,
>>and DocBook basics in the past 3 weeks or so. However, there are some
>>issues that I haven't been able to figure out yet, the most important
>>one being stylesheet customization (XSL).
>>
>>Just to see if it works, I wrote a customization layer that imports
>>docbook.xsl and changes the default language to German. Examples of what
>>I'm trying to do next include: assigning a new standard font, adjusting
>>spacing and indentation, and resizing page layout. This must have been
>>done thousands of times, yet it's not easy to find answers (checked TDG,
>>internet, and param.xsl/stylesheet documentation).
> 
> I keep this fo reference page bookmarked:
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/
> For awhile it was out of date, but I believe it is
> now being kept up to date with the stylesheet releases.



And this is helpful for html
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/

Note that the hypertext link from this page below to the html reference 
shows the file part of the URI as param.html so it doesn't work.
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/ch02s02.html

Eric