Re: DocBook build failures, and graphical figures

[Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>]

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hoi :)

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> In each failing case, I can use "db2ps" or "db2pdf" to successfully 
> convert the XML file, whereas xmlto fails.

yes, passivetex (which is used by xmlto to process XML-FO) is not as
stable as I thought.
It breaks at strange times but I did not yet had the energy to really
look into it.
So we probably have to support db2pdf/ps again.

> * Can you make it easy to change the paper size to something custom, 
> like 6x9in ?

you should be able to put the following lines into stylesheet.xsl:
<param name="paper.width">6in</param>
<param name="paper.height">11in</param>

would it be easy enough if I provided some commented out entries?
(well the above only works for xmlto, I don't know how to set
the paper size for db2*)

> * Is there an example somewhere describing how to insert graphics 
> (figures and charts) ?

you can insert graphics with
<mediaobject><imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="blah.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject></mediaobject>
(See http://www.faqs.org/docs/docbook/html/mediaobject.html)

The above generates an <img src="blah.png"> in HTML mode.
Is that what you want?

-- 
Martin Waitz

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