discuss: Re: sgml question
Subject:
Re: sgml question
From:
Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date:
14 Jul 2003 13:34:44 -0000
Message-Id: <3F12B176.50308@austin.rr.com>
Thanks Tab, and sorry to everybody for spammin' the list, I forgot there
was a separate mailing list for docbook questions *cancels morning
schedule to engage in earnest self-flagellation*
Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 07:11, David Horton wrote:
>
>>Howard Shane wrote:
>>
>>>...but when I process my doc with docbook2html I get only a text
>>>placeholder like 'note' instead of the neat little pointing-hand gif
>>>that shows up in everybody else's published doc. My source docs process
>>>without errors and the syntax I use with these tags is identical to
>>>other SGML source files from CVS I've examined. What am I missing here?
>>>
>>
>>I don't think you're missing anything in your sources. The reason you
>>are not getting graphics probably has to do with the transformation
>>process. I have not used docbook2html, but I'm assuming it uses a
>>stylesheet similar to DocbookXML to HTML transforms. With XML there is
>>a way to switch graphics on or off, specify the path to graphics, et
>>cetera. This is done by setting parameters in the XSL stylesheet. The
>>XSL parameters are:
>>
>><xsl:param name="admon.graphics" select="0"/>
>><xsl:param name="admon.graphics.path">images/</xsl:param>
>><xsl:param name="graphic.default.extension" select="'.gif'"/>
>>
>>By changing the '0' to a '1' in the line with 'name="admon.graphics"' it
>>will switch on graphics for warnings, tips & notes.
>>
>>I'm not very familiar with SGML, but I would assume that if you search
>>the DSSSL stylesheets for similarly named parameters that you would find
>>the way to turn on graphics.
>
>
> If you're using the ldp.dsl, you need to change:
>
> (define %admon-graphics%
> ;; Use graphics in admonitions?
> #f)
>
> Replace the "f" to "t". It's the same with docbook.dsl, so if you're
> processing with Openjade, that will make sure they show up.
>
> I also found in the ldp.dsl:
>
> (define %admon-graphics-path%
> ;; use graphics in admonitions, set their
> "../images/")
>
> (define %admon-graphics%
> #t)
>
> ...and...
>
> (define %graphic-extensions%
> ;; graphic extensions allowed
> '("gif" "png" "jpg" "jpeg" "tif" "tiff" "eps" "epsf" ))
>
> (define %graphic-default-extension%
> "gif")
>
> Hope that helps, whichever stylesheet and processing tool you are using!
>
> Tab
>
