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RE: [docbook] Hello, newbie inbound
- From: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj at johanneberg dot com>
- To: "'Neil Roeth'" <neil at occamsrazor dot net>, <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:11:24 +0200
- Subject: RE: [docbook] Hello, newbie inbound
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Roeth
>
> On Apr 18, Tomás Aguado Gómez (tomas.aguado@mi.madritel.es) wrote:
> > I use Debian, and installed the package docbook-slides,
> > but when I try to create a PDF with :
> >
> > /sgmltools -bpdf slides.sgml/
> >
> >
> > Of a SGML Like this One:
> >
> > */<?xml version='1.0'?>
> > <!DOCTYPE slides PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD Slides XML V3.0b1//EN"
...
> I think the issues you are having are Debian toolchain specific. The
> description for the Debian sgmltools-lite package which
> provides the command
> sgmltools says that it does not handle XML, and the above is
> an xml document.
> Jade and OpenJade can handle XML, it's this higher level
> wrapper that cannot.
> There is another wrapper available, docbook-utils, that is
> supposed to be able
> to handle XML - give it a try. I think the problem is that
> Jade is using an
> SGML declaration and you need to tell it to use the XML declaration -
> docbook-utils does that. If docbook-utils doesn't work, try
> using jade or openjade directly.
In this case, Jade will be useful only with DSSSL stylesheets for DocBook
Slides. I did some googling, but I could not find any such stylesheets.
/MJ
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