On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:50:43AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm just starting to play with DocBook -- after fixing the tetex-extra > bug (there's a patch posted to the jatex package in the buglist). I was > actually up an running in an hour or so, with Walsh's book and a few > websites -- despite having not touched emacs for most of the past five > years. > The one thing I'm wondering about is stylesheets -- what's included in > Debian, what's available elsewhere, and how do I specify a particular > stylesheet when formatting a document? And more importantly -- is there > a way to preview the results of a particular stylesheet on typical > output -- something like a Themes.org for stylesheets? This would be > very useful.
Debian has three sets of stylesheets (that I know of) for DocBook, they are found in the docbook-stylesheets, cygnus-stylesheets, and sgmltools-2 packages. There is also a sgmltools package, but I think it's stylesheets are for LinuxDoc. The ones in cygnus-stylesheets and sgmltools-2 both use in the modular stylesheets from docbook-stylesheets. I don't know of any others that are out there inside or outside of Debian, but if you hear about any I would like to know also. I think each tool has a different way of specifying which stylesheet to use, but I'm not sure. I never worried about them before (I just used the default from db2pdf), but I recently began using the <set> and <revhistory> tags and I have been trying to find out more about stylesheets because I don't like the way the default stylesheets handle those tags. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware
