docbook-apps

  • 1.  Landscape example?

    Posted 01-11-2007 14:53
    In docbook, is it possible to have a landscape example? I've seen how to
    do a table landscape but don't see how to do this for examples.

    thanks!
    Kari

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  • 2.  RE: [docbook-apps] Landscape example?

    Posted 01-11-2007 16:29
    Hey Kari,
    I experimented with landscaping stuff other than single-pages tables in
    docbook+fo a while back. It works, but there are some limitiations on
    what you can landscape. IIRC, you can use it to landscape chapters,
    appendixes, or their direct children. So you couldn't landscape an
    <example> arbitrarily deep in your doc's xml tree, it would have to be
    the direct child of a chapter, appendix, or article.

    I used Ken Holman's psmi stylesheets to post-process the xsl-fo that the
    docbook xsls create.

    So at a high level, the process is this:

    1. Add some attributes/processing-instructions to your docbook source
    indicating what should be landscaped (subject to the limitations
    mentioned above).
    2. Customize the docbook xsls to add in some special psmi markup to the
    xsl-fo that the docbook xsls products. Ken Holman's psmi xsls will use
    this markup to modify your fo.
    3. Modify your build system to run the xsl-fo produced by the docbook
    customization through Ken's psmi xsls.

    I've got sample docbook xsls posted:
    http://sourceware.org/ml/docbook-apps/2003-q4/msg00727.html
    http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/

    I'd love to see a clever solution that let me landscape arbitrary block
    elements at any depth in the doc. When I looked into it, it seemed
    tricky to do tho.

    Good luck,
    David

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  • 3.  RE: [docbook-apps] Landscape example?

    Posted 01-11-2007 16:36
    > I've got sample docbook xsls posted:
    > http://sourceware.org/ml/docbook-apps/2003-q4/msg00727.html
    > http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/

    Probably obvious, but that 2nd link is to Ken's psmi xsls on which my
    customization of the docbook xsls depends.

    David



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