docbook: ldp_print question
Subject:
Re: ldp_print question
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
10 Jul 2002 20:42:20 -0000
Message-Id: <10207101638.ZM1845@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Jul 10, 1:16pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Subject: Re: ldp_print question
> excellent. thank you greg! i wish i had your expertise in this stuff.
>
> another question, but more general:
>
> suppose we have a certain requirement for our document. for instance:
>
> * the linux kernel module programming guide would really suffer without
> an index at the end.
>
> * footnotes all get glooped at the end of the document, which becomes
> unruly when you need to flip 100 pages for a 1 line footnote. the
> lkmpg would be better served by "end of chapter" notes, rather than
> "end of document" notes.
>
> these things (and the minor change you give below) require changing
> ldp.dsl.
>
> however, it doesn't really matter what the copy looks like on my hard
> drive. i already know where "init_module" is mentioned in the lkmpg;
> it would be more useful for the people using ldp documents.
>
> is there a way for ldp to use slightly customized versions of ldp.dssl?
The index creation should be freeely available (if the proper SGML/XML
tags are used to denote index items). I don't believe you need to
do anything to ldp.dsl. There is a pre-processing step that is required.
Here's how I do it (in ldp_mk):
# create the index...
#
collateindex.pl -N -o index.{xml,sgml}
jade -t sgml -V html-index -d $style $fname
collateindex.pl -g -t Index -i doc-index -o index.{xml,sgml} HTML.index
...then run jade as normal to produce your HTML instances
That step creates an "index.{xml,sgml}" file which can then be
referenced thru an entity declaration somewhere in the main text
of your document:
<!ENTITY doc-index SYSTEM "index.sgml">
...
&doc-index;
Additonal info on this is in the LDP Author Guide:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/tools-hints.html
As for the footnotes, I'm not familiar with how that processing works.
To answer your question, "yes"...I can process with a user-supplied
DSSSL stylesheet. There are one or two docs that I do that with
currently, at the request of the authors. You simply need to include
it with any instructions when the submittal of the document is done.
regards,
--
Greg Ferguson * SGI principal engr / LDP contributor
SGI Tech Pubs * http://techpubs.sgi.com/ | gferg(at)sgi.com
Linux Doc Project* http://tldp.org/ | gferg(at)metalab.unc.edu
