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Re: docbook2html ignores some markup
On Saturday 06 April 2002 22:36, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > On Friday 05 April 2002 20:37, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > > > You can select what finds its way and what not.
>
> yes, but why isn't it done by default?!
By default, there's a selection of what should be displayed and what not in
the docbook-utils stylesheet, if I remember correctly. Of course, this cannot
match everyone's expectations.
> > In the style sheets.
>
> obviously you cannot expect me to modify the system-wide style sheets.
> (this is UNIX, not windows, user should not edit stuff in
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.9/, right?)
Exactly, but you can pass a customized stylesheet overriding this one with -d
argument.
> you also cannot expect me to copy _all_ the style sheets to my account
> and edit them there.
A few lines are enough ;-). Just copy docbook-utils.dsl and edit it.
> I do not modify the Emacs elisp tree to customize it!
This is emacs-independant, thanks God.
> thus I presume that I need to add something to my XML, or tell
> docbook2html to add a small style sheet of my own creation.
> right?
Yup. Good reasoning.
> > It's explained on Norm's site.
>
> could you please be more specific?
I would if I had enough time to answer with more than a few lines :-(
> <http://nwalsh.com/> has a lot of stuff there.
Indeed.