docbook: ldp_print question
Subject:
Re: ldp_print question
From:
Jim Weller ####@####.####
Date:
10 Jul 2002 21:44:52 -0000
Message-Id: <330918EC-944E-11D6-9063-0003936824B4@gci.net>
Can you set the variable in the doc itself?
Jim
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 12:38 PM, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> 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
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