Re: ANN: DocbookInContext

[Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>]

Hi Tobias,

Thanks for your extensive reaction.

I must admit that I have done what developers should not do: be
unreachable for some time after a release. I will be not be reading my
email much for the coming three weeks. So, bear with me and I will go
over all remarks when I am back. 

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:28:02AM +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Simon Pepping wrote:
> > DocbookInContext is a mapping of Docbook XML files to the ConTeXt
> > macro package for TeX.
> 
> First I want to thank for the Docbook support, which I missed (and thus
> I didn't wrote Docbooks myself but sticked to TeX itself). Thus I'm
> completely new to the Docbook format.
> 
> Some things I observed:
> 
> a) Using <author><firstname>Tobias</firstname><surname>Burnus</surname></author>
>    there is no space between first and surname.

I see. I will have to devise a way to deal with that correctly. Now
the elements within author are typeset as they come; inserting a space
requires a greater control over them. I would have to find out what
the previous or next sibling is.

> b) What is the best way to typseset
>      http://www.docbook.org/xml/mathml/1.0/testmath.xml
>    I somehow failed to get the mml: namespace -> mathml working

I do not know that document. I will look it up.

> c) The xtag-docbook-literals-de.tex: \def\XMLDBstartquote{``} are not
>    the quotations used in German (,, ... '', see lang-ger.tex)
> 
> d) What I think would be nice if the author and title could be
>    automatically mapped to the \setupinteraction[author=,title=]

Hmm, you know so much more about ConTeXt than I do. I'll check the
manual to see what you mean.

> e) The <!DOCTYPE ... [ <!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "chap1.xml"> ]>
>        &chap1;
>    doesn't work here. Is this a problem of ConTeXt or is this SGML
>    instead of XML or ...?

A context problem. The first entity is missed.

> f) HANS: Is it possible to map the encoding in
>      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>    automatically to a input regime - at least if it is present?
> 

Regards, Simon

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Simon Pepping
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