From: "Éric Bischoff" <e.bischoff@noos.fr>
To: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Cc: "Hubert Sokolowski" <h.sokolowski@wsisiz.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: paper type
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504261344.29889.e.bischoff@noos.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41411.80.51.9.3.1114513750.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl>
Le Mardi 26 Avril 2005 13:09, Hubert Sokolowski a écrit :
> thanks for you reply. I have managed to solve this problem by editing
> docbook-utils.dsl and saving it to another dsl file, so I can pass this
> file on a command line for db2pdf.
Ah yes, that works too. I was considering a solution based on one single
generic style sheet. But it's of course simpler to use one style sheet per
paper format.
> I can distribute this dsl file with my
> application to other systems without the need to edit docbook-utils.dsl.
> But I stopped using DocBook for my application for now, because I could
> not solve problems with tables, column widths and preformatted text in
> entries. Now I create PDFs from HTML using htmldoc and I have beautifull
> tables :). I could switch back if there was a way to have column width in
> a table set automatically.
Have you tried more recent styles sheets ? The fo ones, using fop. Perharps it
would solve your problems with tables. And it would be much a cleaner
solution than one based on HTML...
--
Never try and teach a pig to sing,
you waste your time and annoy the pig
- Mark Twain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-26 6:08 Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-26 10:16 ` Éric Bischoff
2005-04-26 11:09 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-26 11:46 ` Éric Bischoff [this message]
2005-04-26 11:57 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-26 12:56 ` Éric Bischoff
2005-04-27 9:16 Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-27 11:47 ` Éric Bischoff
2005-04-27 12:05 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-27 13:24 ` Éric Bischoff
2005-04-28 6:15 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-28 10:36 ` Éric Bischoff
2005-04-28 10:41 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2005-04-28 13:28 ` Éric Bischoff
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