Re: DocBook build failures, and graphical figures

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 18:08:05 EST


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


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