discuss: SGML frustration
Subject:
Re: SGML frustration
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jul 2001 16:31:08 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107190929140.1523-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
My first question would be, did you put the SGML declaration at the top of
the file?
J
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Wade Hampton wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Sorry for the frustrated post, but I am trying to
>go back and do some linuxdoc document generation
>(been about 2 years). I have a howto I need to
>update and some documentation for a customer I
>am writing and linuxdoc seems a good fit, if I can
>get it working properly as I need html and a
>nice printed book-like format (ps or pdf).
>
>I have the samples: big-howto-template.sgml and
>big-howto-template-ld.sgml.
>
>My system is RH 7.1 with rpms installed for:
> docbook-dtd3.0, 3.1, 4.1
> docbook-utils-pdf-0.6-13
> docbook-style-dsssl-1.59-10
> sgml-tools-1.0.9-9
> sgml--common-0.5-5
> psgml-1.2.1-13
>
>I have the following (probably dumb) questions:
>
>1) When running sgml2html big--howto-template.sgml:
> a) cannot generate system identifier for public text
> "-//OASIS//DTD...."
> b) I get a lot of errors about "element "IMAGEOBJECT" undefined"
> for most of the elements.
> c) I asssume these problems are a path or configuration
> issue. I tried changing the DTD line to 4.1 and
> re-running, but with the same result.
>
>2) When I edited big-howto-template-ld.sgml to include
> an image, I am having problems with image placement
> in sgml2ps. I took a screen capture of kcalc and
> saved it as jpg, gif, and eps files. I then changed
> the figure tag to
>
><figure loc="here">
> <eps file="kcalc.eps" height="4cm">
> <image src="kcalc.gif">
></figure>
>
> The image appears fine in sgml2html output, but in the
> postscript output, the image starts in the middle of
> the screen and typically goes off the right side.
>
> How can I make the image start at the left margin? I can
> then scale the image for a nice output....
>
>Cheers,
>
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