Re: [docbook] Where do I post a question?

[Joseph Casey <joecasey@shannontechnology.ie>]

Hi Norman.

That is interesting since I already use CSS, and so it might be the direction I will take.

Nonetheless It would be good if someone were to send me a reference DocBook and xsl pair just in case I need to revisit it.

JC

On 24/10/2022 15:45, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:

> > I am writing manuals in DocBook for output to HTML.
> > I am using Pandoc 2.19.2 as the rendering program.
> > I use the following command to create the HTML.
> > pandoc --from docbook --to html --output mydoc.html mydoc.xml
> >       
> Pandoc is very handy, but itâs another wrapper between your work and the
> work you want to do. You might find it easier to setup an environment
> for transforming directly, for example https://xsltng.docbook.org/
>
> > Perhaps a short table with frame box and background colour settings.
> >       
> Iâd encourage you to think in terms of transforming DocBook to clean
> HTML5 and then using CSS to apply frames and background colors. You can
> do it directly, of course, with style attributes on the elements you
> produce or by relying on attributes from older versions of HTML, but
> modern CSS is really quite good and the separation will make style
> changes (âIâd like the background to be pink instead of greenâ) much
> easier.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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> Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
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