Re: [docbook-apps] db2man: base.dir param doesn't work

[Denis Bradford <denis dot bradford at verizon dot net>]

Yes, I'm talking about the manpages/docbook.xsl stylesheet.

The last time I generated manpages from docbook it was not
an xsl process -  it was torturous, so I'm grateful for your work
on this stylesheet.

Michael Smith wrote:
> Denis Bradford <denis.bradford@verizon.net> writes:
>
>
> > The base.dir param seems to have no effect with the db2man stylesheet. 
> > I've tried it both in the stylesheet and from the command line.
> >
> > I'm running with docbook.xsl 1.68.1 with saxon 6.4.3
>
>
> That is by design. Support for the base.dir param has not yet been
> implemented for manpages output. In fact, there is not support yet
> in the manpages stylesheet for *any* user-configurable parameters.
>
> But there will be in the next stylesheet release. I recently
> checked in some of the litprog infrastructure parts needed for
> auto-generating docs for manpage parameters. Now I just need to
> start actually implementing support for the parameters. The first
> two will be params to toggle hyphenation and right-justification.
>
> If you want support for base.dir to be added, please file a
> manpages enhancement request at Sourceforge.
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=516914&group_id=21935&func=browse
>
> And just to be clear, you mean the manpages/docbook.xsl stylesheet, right?
>
>   --Mike