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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: XML one more time.
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:37:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F49F9975-3BD8-42B9-AD12-13790FC63E5E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907141523.48482.john@wexfordpress.com>


Am 14.07.2009 um 21:23 schrieb John Culleton:

> I have the xml sources for the Gimp manual. I can't seem to get them
> to translate to a pdf. The top xml file just contains a series of
> calls to subordinate files. When I run this through Context I get
> just the text of the first file in no particular format and none of
> the subfiles.
> I have tried
> texexec --environment=gimp gimp.xml
> and
> texexec --environment=xml gimp.xml
>
> The Gimp advice is to use dblatex, but that seems to think it is on
> a Windows system and generates errors containing code like c:\foo
>
> Now I can hand convert each and every xml statement in each and
> every subfile to a TeX equivalent but there should be a shorter
> way. There are more than 600 subfiles.  Or I can write a program to
> do that to either the xml source or the html derivative.  But I
> hope Context will enable me to do it with less labor.

You have to define what should happen with each file in the docbook  
source,
there is a old module for ConTeXt to do this but I don't know if it  
works
with a recent installation.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 19:23 John Culleton
2009-07-14 20:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2009-07-14 21:36   ` Hans Hagen

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