Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: callouts and admonitions

[fyl2xp1 <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com>]

thanks.  It was an accident posting to the wrong list, sorry. (typed the
wrong thing in)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@caldera.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: callouts and admonitions


> [I moved this thread to docbook-apps where it is more
> appropriate.  The docbook list is for DTD discussion].
>
> > From: fyl2xp1 <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com>
> >
> > If I want to use the callouts or admonitions in my files I am currently
placing a copy of the images directory (a customised copy containing the
files I need) in the directory that I am executing the command sequences
needed to generate the files.
> >
> > This does not feel like  it is the correct way to do this as I would
assume that the
> > style-sheet programs should create these directories automatically and
place any
> > files needed in them?
>
>
> That would be a nice feature, but XSLT has no facilities
> of its own to create directories and copy binary files.
> It would require extension functions.
>
> I presume you are running into this for print output, since
> HTML output processing just writes a path in IMG src
> attributes but doesn't actually access the graphics files.
>
> For print output you can use the 'callout.graphics.path'
> and 'admon.graphics.path' parameters with the FO stylesheet
> to set paths to where the graphics files are installed.
> Relative paths work too.  That way you don't have to copy
> them around.  They will get pulled into the PDF output by
> the FO processor.  Be sure to include a trailing slash on
> the paths.
>
> For HTML processing, those parameter values are written into
> the IMG src pathnames, so they should represent the
> location of the images relative to the HTML files
> in the output.
>
> Copying the image files to the HTML output directory would be
> a nice feature, if the processor knows the output
> directory. But if you are just directing unchunked HTML output
> to a file, then the XSL processor doesn't know where it is going.
>
> I generally use Makefiles so I don't forget details
> like copying the image files to the output area.
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