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Re: making a book of articles with Fop


/ Dan York <dyork@e-smith.com> was heard to say:
| On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:03:03PM -0500, Jamie Smedsmo wrote:
| > I am trying to make a book that consists of a bunch of articles.  I
| > want to use apache's Fop to make a pdf file.  I can't find any examples
| > and mine doesn't work.  Any suggestions?
| 
| Yes. Do NOT create them as separate <article> documents.  When you
| are breaking out your chapters like this into separate files, each
| file should have valid DocBook code, but NOT an overall element like
| <article>.  (and no DOCTYPE headers and such).  So they should be:

There's no reason  why they can't be articles. (DocBook supports
books of articles. The formatting problems, AFAICT, are simply the
result of FOP problems.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | called old, even at ninety I
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