From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochem Huhmann 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 Message-id: References: <38F65807.4905D5C@cybercable.tm.fr> <00af01bfa571$69317680$1403a8c0@cogent.ca> <38F66342.9FD5F778@cybercable.tm.fr> <38F6E77C.66C4280E@cybercable.tm.fr> <38F779E7.9C0CA04D@cybercable.tm.fr> <38F78E74.4F14B78D@cybercable.tm.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00172.html * Eric Bischoff 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 -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!