discuss: New author questions
Subject:
Re: New author questions
From:
Gregory Leblanc ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jan 2001 04:14:31 -0000
Message-Id: <200101240414.f0O4EMe15390@mail3.aracnet.com>
On 23 Jan 2001 20:42:18 -0500, Eric Kidd wrote:
> Hello! It's me again, with more silly questions. I'm trying to modify my
> HOWTO so it can be rendered by ldp.dsl.
>
> * My XML-RPC HOWTO is currently a DocBook XML 4.1.2 <book>. Should I turn
> it into an <article> before submitting it to the LDP?
As Josh said, book is fine.
>
> * ldp.dsl#print removes <legalnotice> sections from rendered documents.
> This is not desirable. Should I work around this breakage by moving all
> my legal notices into a regular <section> somewhere?
Uhm, this is a bad thing. :) Let me look and see if I can't easily
re-enable this, and get it into production use. It doesn't make sense
to be stuck with all kinds of extra markup when there is a tag designed
for this purpose.
> * Is there a way to make <ulink> tags into PDF hyperlinks? For some
> reason, I vaguely remember Jade doing this at one point, but I could be
> mistaken.
Sure, but I don't think that James's DSSSL engine can do it natively.
Try converting to a single HTML file (-V nochunks on the jade command
line), then passing it through htmldoc. (do a google search on htmldoc,
it'll turn up). That gives you <emphasis>internal</emphasis> linking.
External links are harder, as I don't think PDF supports linking between
documents.
Greg
