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Re: Re: DOCBOOK: Efficiently including images in DocBook
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:51:58AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
> | in a file (call it foo.pdf) and then doing
> |
> | cp foo.def book.tex
> | jade -Vtex-backend .... -t tex -o /dev/stdout book.sgml >> book.tex
> |
> | which seems to have the desired effect.
>
> Ok, then I can call the issue closed. Yes?
Depends. I can now do:
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="fig1">
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<literallayout>+---------------+
| A |
+---------------+</literallayout>
</textobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>A picture</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
However, in order to do that, I must define a %output.html.images entity,
and do
<![ %output.html.images; [
(define %graphic-default-extension% "png")
]]>
and also a %output.print entity, and do
<![ %output.print; [
;; Norm's stylesheets are smart about working out what sort of
;; object to display. But this bites us. Since we know that the
;; first item is going to be displayable, always use that.
(define (find-displayable-object objlist notlist extlist)
(let loop ((nl objlist))
(if (node-list-empty? nl)
(empty-node-list)
(let* ((objdata (node-list-filter-by-gi
(children (node-list-first nl))
(list (normalize "videodata")
(normalize "audiodata")
(normalize "imagedata"))))
(filename (data-filename objdata))
(extension (file-extension filename))
(notation (attribute-string (normalize "format") objdata)))
(node-list-first nl)))))
;; When selecting a filename to use, don't append the default
;; extension, instead, just use the bare filename, and let TeX
;; work it out. jadetex will use the .eps file, while pdfjadetex
;; will use the .png file automatically.
(define (graphic-file filename)
(let ((ext (file-extension filename)))
(if (or tex-backend ;; TeX can work this out itself
(not filename)
(not %graphic-default-extension%)
(member ext %graphic-extensions%))
filename
(string-append filename "." %graphic-default-extension%))))
]]>
And then use Jade's -i option depending on which format we're building.
Incidentally, my DSSSL probably sucks :-)
So it's possible, but it's not exactly supported out of the box.
N
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