On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:29:02PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:16:20 +0100 (BST)
> From: Horst G Kausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Gullik_Bj=F8nnes?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: Horst G Kausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: new prerelease lyx-1.0.4pre4
> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990803165857.25231D-100000@kacmoody>
>
> I have just downloaded and built lyx-1.0.4pre4. Four comments so far:
>
> 1) As I use RedHat 6.0 I build an rpm for it. I noticed that, comtrary to
> lyx 1.0.3, there is now no longer any stuff installed in
> /usr/share/locale/. Is this correct?
> 2) I tried the DocBook support and found a problem with the <author> tag.
> According to the docbook DTD you are not allowed to have text directly
> inside the author tag. Allowed entities are (amongst others)
> <firstname>, <othername>, <surname>
> These then contain the actual text for the name. Lyx creates a single
> <author> tag with the full name inside.
That is not a problem only half the solution ;-)
This means that you have two choices:
* nest the firstname and surname inside the author layout. ugly I know
but the present kernel doesn't give any other choice...
* write in latex font <=> sgml
<firstname>my first name</firstname> <surname> Doe </surname>
> 3) I used the docbook support from the Cygnus Sourceware. Rpms for that
> are available from RedHat Software Labs (these actually work with RH6.0)
> and include:
> nsgml
> jade
> jadetex
> stylesheets -- the stylesheets for the dvi and HTML backends
> psgml -- sgml emacs mode
> When I use lyx on a docbook article to create a dvi preview I get an
> error: It calls "sgmltools" on the .sgml file instead of nsgml or db2dvi.
> Is this still left over from linuxdoc?
Well this problem has 2 parts, first the dvi preview isn't yet completly
adjusted, few rokw, but that is ok...
Lyx has been using sgmltools to deal with all the backend issues, I am
aware of Cygnus packages, BTW some of the discussion about it has been done
in the sgmltools mailing list.
The question is this: Do we rely in cygnus packages or sgmltools v2.0
to handle the background?
Since sgmltools takes cares of some issues that I wouldn't like to deal
in LyX I favour the sgmltools solution.
> 4) Without any documentation on Lyx's docbook support, a sample document
> or template it is difficult to know which features are supported and
> should be tested. Some more info would be appreciated.
My fault, I do have a sample document that I forgot to send. As soon as I
find it I will send a copy to the list and to you.
> I'll do some more testing later.
>
> All the best,
>
> Horst Kausch
>
>
José
