Subject: RE: DocBook an TeX backend From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 22:27:21 +0900 |
BTW, I just noticed that with the RTF backend 1) Titles are automatically exdented (but too much for my taste). 2) %page-balance-columns% works correctly. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Frank A. Christoph > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:08 PM > To: DSSSL list > Subject: DocBook an TeX backend > > > I have some quibbles and questions w.r.t. DocBook and TeX. I'm using > OpenJade 1.3 and DB stylesheets 1.46. > > 1) It looks like no matter what the value of %page-balance-columns?% is, > columns are always balanced. > > 2) For two-column output, the book titlepage is also two column, > which looks > terrible. > > 3) I want chapter and section titles to be "exdented" with respect to body > text. Is that possible? I tried the opposite, indenting the body by > increasing %block-start-indent%. This had a strange effect: it doesn't > indent most body text because I guess paragraphs aren't considered blocks, > but if I nest an itemized-list in a paragraph (not between them) > it indents > not only the list but also the surrounding paragraph. > > 4) Even with %hyphenation% true no hyphenation occurs. (This is a big > problem, especially with two columns!) > > 5a) Is there an easy way to figure out the names of the font families > available in my TeX installation? The only ones I know are cmr, cmss and > cmtt. > > 5b) I would like to replicate the font settings that you get with the > default LaTeX article style. Does someone know what the relevant settings > would be? > > 5c) Also, I have heard that there is a set of fonts called "Blue > Sky" which > work well with PDF output. What are the names of those fonts? > > --FAC > > > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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