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Date:      Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:28:58 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DocBook toolchain questions
Message-ID:  <20051222172858.GA73345@flame.pc>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720511150510x4a008076ie4d00129ab6b5b65@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <84dead720511150510x4a008076ie4d00129ab6b5b65@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2005-11-15 18:40, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of questions about our DocBook to PDF translation process:

Hi Joseph,

This is a relatively old post, but I'm only now catching up with
freebsd-doc email after a long period of ${REALJOB} fun.  Please
ignore any replies for which you have more definitive feedback.

> 1) Is it possible to use <olink> to refer to documentation named by
>    entities (say other documents) inside our documentation collection?
>    Using <ulink url=""> forces links to go to HTML documents.

AFAIK, no.  There is an open bug report about this: docs/27605

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/27605

> 2) I noticed that <ulink url=""> elements are getting rendered as
>    "TEXT" + "URL" in the PDF document.  Why don't we use PDF links
>    directly?

IIRC, this doesn't work with both jade and openjade.  I could be wrong
though.

> 3) Is is possible to render <programlisting> elements with a smaller
>    than default font?

Yes, of course.  By tweaking the stylesheet :-)




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