From: Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net>
To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: images in Docbook with Red Hat 6.2
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wvm04ptn.fsf@nova.revier.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38F78E74.4F14B78D@cybercable.tm.fr>
* Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr> wrote:
> Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> > Err, yes. That's right ;-) But from within a shell script you can
> > configure/request a specific file-format for a given output (as in
> > preferring PNG over GIF for HTML-output)
>
> You can do this in the stylesheets as well, as Sam's code
> snippet shows it.
OK.
> > DSSSL isn't a system programming language, it is for stylesheets. If
> > this means that you have to have all images in one format, well, convert
> > them ;-)
>
> ... or use my entities-based solution ;-).
>
> I also know there's an "imagelib" functionality in Jade, but
> I don't know if this could address this problem.
The actual problem (as so often with this stuff) is to make it easy to
use from a documentation writers point of view. Actually we don't need
any tools, we do need jade and stylesheets and DTD's and a Makefile.
Period.
Someone who just wants to write and convert docs needs simple, straight,
well-documented tools with a man-page. With some commandline options or
with a GUI and with simple configuration files, with reasonable defaults
in /etc and his own in $HOME to override this. We should try to keep
that in mind. Tell these people about entities and driver files and such
and they won't use that at all.
Jochem
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-27 6:36 Sam Roberts
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Sam Roberts
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann [this message]
2000-12-27 6:36 ` godoy
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` godoy
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` David C. Mason
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Sam Roberts
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2000-12-27 6:36 ` David C. Mason
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Diego Sevilla Ruiz (dsevilla@um.es)
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Sam Roberts
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 Peter Toft
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