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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] pdf output
Jason, Comments inline: On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 00:01 US/Eastern, Jason Lewis wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for your reply. > <snipped/> > Thanks for the tips. I'll give both a go. I was really looking for a > more out of the box approach though. Is there somewhere one can find a > list of the shortcommings and perhaps workarounds for them? I don't think there's any single central location for a list of shortcomings or workarounds. I depended rather heavily on Bob Stayton's Docbook XSL Guide (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/) and Dave Pawson's XSL FAQs at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html I would note that using Docbook does not supply an "out of the box approach" - better be ready to do some customization ;) <snipped/> > > It should also be noted that it is possible to avoid the use of > tables >> for many cases in FO-generated output, as FO provides several other >> formatting options for cases that would require a table in HTML, so >> you may want to investigate using FO block-level formatting (of >> things such as variablelist for example) to see if that would meet >> your needs in this case. > > One of the things I want to do is have a block of text on the left, > and an image on the right of the page. > > <snipped/> > I tried to do it didn't really work with the PassiveTex PDF output. > > Can acheive the same thing without the use of tables? Without trying it, I wouldn't know the exact markup I would use to do this, but it should also be possible to accomplish this using a simple two-column table - do you have source I can look at? - JohnK
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