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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Martin Waitz wrote:
> 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.

Cool, just wanted to make sure it got noticed and fixed.


>>* 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?

don't bother.  I was just curious for my own knowledge.


> (well the above only works for xmlto, I don't know how to set
> the paper size for db2*)

Yeah, as I have discovered :/


>>* 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?

Yep!

I was curious how to include images (and figures) in the kernel docbook 
docs.  The above example and URL were more than enough to get me going.

Thanks,

	Jeff