On Wednesday 26 November 2008 20:13:29 Ethan Metsger wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:48:26 -0500, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would have done before if I had not been victim of a cold. :-) > > I'm currently recovering from one, too--no worries about the delay. > > > What are the problems that you have encountered. I am interested to fix > > them > > in both the stable and the development series. > > > > I am specially interested in the problems you are having with the xml > > generated docbook. > > I'll file some bug reports (and throw them back in this thread), but in
Please do. > general it looks like the <book> tag is improperly generated (using > 'lang="EN_US"' appears to be invalid), and I have not been able to get OK, the right language should be "EN", I thought I had this working, I will fix it. The best fix would probably to have a list of supported stylesheet languages and if necessary return the nearest. > graphics properly embedded in the HTML output. The <authorinfo> section > is also not properly outputted; I suspect this can be fixed pretty easily > by layout changes, but I'm not sure. A better error handling would allow to understand what the error is. > The user-customized preamble is put into the doctype declaration, too--I > don't really consider this a bug, but I was a little surprised to find it > in the output. The rationale is that is the only place where you can define entities. This is more or less the analog of latex preamble although you do more in latex than just to define constants. > LyX is also a few revisions behind in its DocBook support, at least > according to the doctype (I think 4.4 is the last 4.x revision, and 5.x is > current; the generated XML says that it's using 4.2). That can be easily changed in the layout file. I should have updated the layout before the last update to 1.6.0. Again one of the problems it that this is not documented. > I've used both the sgmltools package and the sgml2x package. I'll make > sure to describe the pertinent information in the bugzilla filings when > the time comes, as the two seem to work slightly differently. > > Thanks again for all your hard work, guys; I really do appreciate it. Thanks, > Best, > > Ethan > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- José Abílio
