Re: Docbook and Debian - migration from DSSL to XSL stylesheets

2015-02-25 Thread Markos
On 25-02-2015 12:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 25 Fev 2015, Markos wrote: Could you possibly give me some tips on how to use the xlstproc in Debian Squeeze? The man page has all the details, but it is pretty simple anyway. I think that I should install this package: apt-get install

Re: Docbook and Debian - migration from DSSL to XSL stylesheets

2015-02-25 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 25 Fev 2015, Markos wrote: Could you possibly give me some tips on how to use the xlstproc in Debian Squeeze? The man page has all the details, but it is pretty simple anyway. I think that I should install this package: apt-get install xsltproc Yes. And also the package with the XS

Re: Docbook and Debian - migration from DSSL to XSL stylesheets

2015-02-25 Thread Markos
On 24-02-2015 09:37, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 24 Fev 2015, Markos wrote: Hi, Over the past eight years I have been using Docbook in Debian 5.0 and 6.0 with the script "jw". I received an information that the script "jw" uses DSSSL stylesheets and that it is obsolete and limited.

Re: Docbook and Debian - migration from DSSL to XSL stylesheets

2015-02-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 24 Fev 2015, Markos wrote: Hi, Over the past eight years I have been using Docbook in Debian 5.0 and 6.0 with the script "jw". I received an information that the script "jw" uses DSSSL stylesheets and that it is obsolete and limited. Would be better to migrate to XSL-based system

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-30 18:40:26 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Reading /usr/share/doc/tex4ht/html/index.html, says that: > > Usage is simplified via the Perl script mk4ht whi

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Mazurek
On 8/30/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? > > > [snip slew of errors when using tex4ht directly from the command line

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:46:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? > [snip slew of errors when using tex4ht directly from the command line] Reading /usr/share/doc/tex4ht/html/index.html, says that:

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-29 21:38:44 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Try tex4ht. Makes html, docbook, +? On the same file: vin:~/wd/tex> tex4ht wcinverse.tex tex4ht.c (2007-04-21-21:07 kpathsea) tex4ht wcinverse.tex --- warning --- Problem with command line --- error --- Can't f

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:06:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > > than any of the other solu

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-28 13:28:34 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so > horribly verbose that I can't imagine how people put up with maintaining > documents written using it. It's as if the creators got so carried away > adding features that they com

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > than any of the other solutions which I found. HeVeA handles LaTeX > documents with complex format

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-28 Thread - Tong -
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math >> symboles and functions, not always). >> Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > > Considering that this is exactly what latex was desi

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Lale
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > > thanks for help > > > Have a look at LyX [1] which is a great front end GUI fo

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or > requiring a huge meta-package install. Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so horribly

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > These days I am using texmacs for anything that I previously used to do with latex

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070827 20:28]: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> ... Since there are readily >>> available (as debian packages) ways to turn latex into html, I use latex >>> for ever

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:25:53PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > > turned into ps, pdf, tex

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 13:15:01 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Considering that this is exactly what latex was designed for, I would > use latex. AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be > turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or > requiring a huge meta-pac

Re: docBook or latex

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:29:38AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to write big document (say reports) ( sometimes with math > symboles and functions, not always). > Which is better and in which cases, I have to use docbook or latex?? > Considering that this is exactly what latex was

Re: Docbook and jade - setup failed/not complete - "is not a function name" errors - what is wrong?

2004-03-30 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Peter Sebastian Masny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to use docbook to make my HOWTOs nice and pretty, however, my > system install is flawed. (testing/unstable) That's OK. But I suggest to use other, modern tools. Just forget jade and docbook-dsssl and use xsltproc and docbook-xsl (

Re: DocBook

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Mueller
On Monday 24 February 2003 18:28, Mike M wrote: > On Monday 24 February 2003 15:45, David Z Maze wrote: > > Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to restart my DocBook efforts. I have SGML source and want > > > to produce HTML and PDF docs > > > > > > Should I start by installing these p

Re: DocBook

2003-02-24 Thread Mike M
On Monday 24 February 2003 15:45, David Z Maze wrote: > Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to restart my DocBook efforts. I have SGML source and want > > to produce HTML and PDF docs > > > > Should I start by installing these packages: docbook, docbook-dsssl? > > That's probably a good

Re: DocBook

2003-02-24 Thread David Z Maze
Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to restart my DocBook efforts. I have SGML source and want > to produce HTML and PDF docs > > Should I start by installing these packages: docbook, docbook-dsssl? That's probably a good start; you also need a DSSSL processor (jade and jadetex seem to b

Re: DocBook: Need Example Files and Scripts

2002-09-19 Thread Gleef
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:34:11PM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > Greetings: > > I am not sure if this belongs to debian-doc or debian-user; so I > send it to this list. May I know, where and how to get the SGML > source of Debian Documents? Sure, http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs > Or, could someone

Re: docbook: xml -> (x)html conversion

2002-04-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:52:14PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > docbook-website is pretty specialized; it's a DTD/stylesheet combo > designed pretty much exactly for building Web pages that look like, > say, http://www.docbook.org/. If that's what you're trying to do, > great; otherwise, there's

Re: docbook: xml -> (x)html conversion

2002-04-25 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am learning docbook and try to build a html file from xml using a > dtd from the package docbook-website. docbook-website is pretty specialized; it's a DTD/stylesheet combo designed pretty much exactly for building Web pages that look like, say, http://

Re: docbook xae problem

2002-02-23 Thread Hans Steinraht
Eric, thanks, I'm gonna try that. I posted here because I think there is something wrong in the package, I get some results when I install docbook manually. But it's also possible that I do things wrong with xae. Hans On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:43:12AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi Hans, >

Re: docbook xae problem

2002-02-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi Hans, Docbook-apps mailing list is the place to ask this sort of question. The list reference is found here towards the bottom of the page: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/ It could be something else with the install packaging etc. but some on the list use Debian as well. Ho

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-15 Thread Brian May
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Informative to the stooped newbie sgml user, eh? I share Joost> the pain. ';-) >> isn't > how you specify '>'? and isn't < how you specify >> '<' in XML? I can never seem to find these documented when I >> need

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project > I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions > for generating various formats of output. hey, dbcoder looks interes

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread David Z Maze
David H Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DHS> I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project DHS> I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions DHS> for generating various formats of output. DHS> I guess what I'm really loooking for is a cookbook

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: | Greetings, | | I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project | I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions | for generating various formats of output. See the newbiedoc project,

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-12 Thread Harold Bibik
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > Something Debian-specific would be ideal (e.g. "Install this package, do > this to create a PDF."), but I'll take something less specific if that's > all that is out there. Any suggestions? you might want

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joost> You are using openjade, perhaps? Try jade, it does work. > Joost> I got it to work once with the plex86 docs, which are xml > Joost> docbook. > > I am usin

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-10 Thread Brian May
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> You are using openjade, perhaps? Try jade, it does work. Joost> I got it to work once with the plex86 docs, which are xml Joost> docbook. I am using stuff like: ii jade 1.2.1-18 James Clark's DSSSL Engi

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-10 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:48:18PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "jdalton" == jdalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jdalton> Does anyone know how to process a docbook article, > jdalton> containing MathML, under Debian (please)? > > No, but if you find out, could you please let me kn

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-09 Thread Brian May
> "jdalton" == jdalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdalton> Does anyone know how to process a docbook article, jdalton> containing MathML, under Debian (please)? No, but if you find out, could you please let me know ? ...so far I have had problems rendering *any* XML Docbooks files

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > > Me, again! > > > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > > > Vittorio > > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > >

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > Me, again! > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > Vittorio > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the w

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-25 Thread Victor
Me, again! No one using docbook & xml out there? Vittorio Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > Hi, > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the way it builds well structured and > nice-looking documents. Less enthusiastic

Re: DocBook - db2pdf and db2ps problems

2001-02-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[resending, I had bad mail configuration which killed my outbound mail] Henning Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried the debian-user list, but my question was probably too sgml > specific, so I repost it here: Ok, I'm crossposting reply. > > I'm a newcomer to Debian and Linux in gener

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-04 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | There is a lot of info in the docbook stylesheet docs but you kind of have | to eke it out. Norm gives an example of the driver file in his DocBook book | which is available online (somewhere). http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/ch04.html#AEN

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:59:32PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > - What tools to you use to produce output? I've been using sgmltools, > but am told jade is the preferred (or at least more powerful) route. The scripts in sgmltools simply call jade. /usr/bin/sgmltools, from sgmltools

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:40:24PM -0500, Bob Bernstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/dbparam.dsl > > In your custom dssl driver file put: > > (define %paper-type% >

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/dbparam.dsl In your custom dssl driver file put: (define %paper-type% ;; Name of paper type "A4") The DocBook stylesheet documentation lists these characteristi

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:31:54PM +0100, Remco van 't Veer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get sgmltools-2 to output my docbook article in a4 format? I > always end up with a BBox size document. My /etc/papersize reads a4 > though. I'm still getting the hang of this myself, but

Re: DocBook -- stylesheets help?

2000-12-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:50:43AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm just starting to play with DocBook -- after fixing the tetex-extra > bug (there's a patch posted to the jatex package in the buglist). I was > actually up an running in an hour or so, with Walsh's book and a few > websites

Re: docbook-utils

2000-11-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:19:59 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm > > package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: > > docbook2html, docbook2ps, d

Re: docbook-utils

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:19:59 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm > package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as: > docbook2html, docbook2ps, docbook2pdf, etc. > Does somebody know where to f

Re: docbook-stylesheet-doc problems

2000-08-12 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:59:59AM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > hi there ... > > Setting up docbook-stylesheet-doc (1.56-1): > cannot open dhelp file '/usr/doc/docbook-stylesheets-doc/.dhelp': at > /usr/sbin/install-docs line 556 > .. > .. > .. > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of

Re: Docbook: Graphics for navigation links

2000-04-27 Thread Felix Natter
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Aside: has the Unisys unpleasantness cast a shadow over these gif files, and > if so are there some png replacements out there?] look at http://www.gnome.org->documentation (or www.kde.org) both projects are using docbook for documentation now, and the

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Happens to us all. ;-) "Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:07:24PM -0500, > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % zgrep db2html Contents-alpha > > usr/bin/db2html text/cygnus-stylesheets > > usr/lib/debbugs/db2html misc/debbugs > > usr

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-14 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:07:24PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % zgrep db2html Contents-alpha > usr/bin/db2html text/cygnus-stylesheets > usr/lib/debbugs/db2html misc/debbugs > usr/man/man1/db2html.1.gz text/cygnus-stylesheets Please excuse

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:28:33PM +0100, > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. > > As I said in my original message, I grepped the Contents.gz for potato > and slink, and came up w

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-14 Thread Jor-el
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > Where can I get the tools db2html, db2ps, db2rtf, etc.? They are used in > generating documentation for Gnome, but I can't find them. I've grepped > the Contents file for slink and potato, but don't see them. > Eric, These sound remarkabl

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:28:33PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. As I said in my original message, I grepped the Contents.gz for potato and slink, and came up with nothing. ~$ grep db2html Contents-i386

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Kerne Fahey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:32:10AM -0600 X-Face: [<1w@,'_0!1^0P^P`aR~sKEcQmK>|[EMAIL PROTECTED]'W)1E|wqIfP>V1q->` Still, questions about Eric Gillespie, Jr.'s hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > Where can I get the tools db2html, db2ps, db2rtf

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:44:01 -0600, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > Thanks, I'm downloading now. Are there any plans to package these? They are packaged. 'cygnus-stylesheets'. Contents.gz is your friend. -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a better one than the one the blocks

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:10:27PM +, Steve George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't help you with the Debian package but you may be able to Alien > the RPM from Cygnus which is stylesheets-0.10-2 which is here > http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/doc

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Steve George
Hi, I can't help you with the Debian package but you may be able to Alien the RPM from Cygnus which is stylesheets-0.10-2 which is here http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/RPMS/noarch/ the source should also be there so you could roll your own. H

Re: DocBook to html HOWTO

1999-07-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > Can someone tell my how to convert a DocBook document to HTML ? Something like this should do the trick: jade -t sgml -d \ /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl \ your-source-file-here.sgml HTH, -Remco

Re: docbook-stylesheets

1999-02-08 Thread Remco van de Meent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a simple > outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a little > struggling). I have two big problems though: > > When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (or if I do > I

Re: docbook-stylesheets

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Folks, > > I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a > simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a > little struggling). I have two big problems though: > > When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (

Re: Docbook

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:33PM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Hi > > I have some sgml-docs written in DocBook. They have the header: > > The Makefile (written by RH-user) uses db2html for formatting. > Since I have no such thing I tried sgml2something, but I always > got the complaint: > > /