Re: [docbook-apps] round tripped

[Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>]

Hi Aaron,

Answers:

1. Yes, use Normal style.  I should probably add in a "para" style  
just for completeness.

2. Table cells are implicitly translated into entry elements (and  
table rows into "row" elements).

3. Graphics are supported by imageobject-imagedata and informalfigure- 
imagedata.

In DocBook, the "example" element can contain a lot of different  
elements.  For this reason, examples are identified by an "example- 
title" style paragraph.  Whatever immediately follows that paragraph  
is included in the example element, along with the title.  As a  
corollary, you can not have an example without a title.

4. You should be able to just use normal Word tables.

For any of the above, if things do not seem to be working correctly  
then please raise a bug report on the DocBook SourceForge site so  
that I can track the problem.  Include an example Word document and  
what you expect the DocBook to look like.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

On 29/12/2006, at 2:29 AM, aamehl wrote:

>
> Further comments:
>
> 1. I used the template and it worked but I saw no para style in the  
> word
> template is normal the correct style?
> 2. I didn't see and equivelent for entry in the word template. My
> company has a table text style
> 3. in the word side I didn't see a style for graphic or example.
> 4. On the word side how do I add a table so that it translates  
> correctly
> into docbook?
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 11:17 +1100, Steve Ball wrote:
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Firstly regarding images; the round-tripping stylesheets do not
>> currently support embedded images, though I am planning on adding
>> this support.  There are two problems with embedded images, both of
>> which require an extension to XSLT to solve.  Problem 1 is writing
>> the image data into a separate file (needs exsl:document).  Problem 2
>> is decoding the base64 encoding of the image data.
>>
>> Secondly regarding styles; the round-tripping stylesheets, as
>> supplied, only understand the styles given in the template document.
>> It is possible to support any styles, but that would require some
>> kind of customisation layer.  I am planning on providing a
>> customisation abstraction, but no schedule on that at this stage.
>>
>> HTHs,
>> Steve Ball
>>
>> On 27/12/2006, at 1:01 AM, aamehl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried the wordml2docbook style sheets and came up empty.
>>>
>>> I did the conversion and found 2 problems:
>>> 1. all my content was in <nomatch> tags, ouch
>>> 2. All my original pics are embedded and they convert to show the
>>> embedded graphics (just like in wordml) which is a real mess.
>>>
>>> I use styles in the original document isn't that enough? or must I
>>> somehow manually map my styles to docbook tags?
>>>
>>>
>>> Or did I miss something in my attempt to convert.
>>>
>>> As far as the pics are concerned I wouldn't mind a placeholder with
>>> the
>>> picture caption in the correct place and I will just add pics in  
>>> word
>>> later.
>>>
>>> Right now this doesn't work for me.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
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