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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: howto make nicer tables? (fwd)
This apparently did not make it to the list yesterday... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:51:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: howto make nicer tables? Thanx for the advice. However: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Doug du Boulay wrote: > On Friday 17 January 2003 07:21, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > > I am processing DocBook/XML with jade and jadtex and hence to pdf and ps. > > Switch to openjade. I recently experienced wierd problems with > tablefootnotes while using Jade, but they disappeared after switching > to openjade (I believe the two were correlated, but I was also > experimenting with customizing the dsssl so not 100% sure). When I run openjade instead of jade (to be precise: openjade -t tex -V tex-backend \ -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/print/docbook.dsl \ /usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl GemBook.xml ) I get lots of messages like: openjade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1/docbook.cat:34:0:W: DTDDECL catalog entries are not supported Huh? No DTDDECL's with XML? %< cut discussion on tables - thax, it works decently well >% > I get the feeling that the dsssl route is a technological > dead end and you would probably be better off switching to xsl > rather than learning to hack dsssl, especially as you are already > using docbook/XML. I think passivetex is also being more > actively developed than jadetex, if I understand correctly. I recall I chose DSSSL anyway because I read that the XSL stylesheets, or one of the other intervening tools, did not support printing - or something like that. The DocBook Wiki on Debian states that FOP performs poorly as compared to Jade/Jadetex (DSSSL) in rpinting. If you have information otherwise, please let me know. Is the proper use of XSL stylesheets with DocBook to generate paper output documented somewhere? -- #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@*^@) Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel. +31-204080204 Amsterdam e-mail tpeters@xs4all.nl
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