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A brief description of each of the user-configurable settings in the HTML stylesheet.
Reference pages for the library functions in dblib.dsl. (FYI: this is programmer's documentation, not user documentation.)
2004-10-10 <petere78@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbhtml.dsl, dbparam.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl: Support for specifying a system ID for the HTML output documents, required
for better parsing in contemporary browsers. A default system ID is set
if %html40% is true.
2004-10-09 <petere78@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: New Bulgarian translation by Viktor Vasilev (SF patch #1040075)
2004-09-23 <petere78@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbprocdr.dsl: Add CSS decoration of procedure steps (RFE #1033197)
2004-09-17 <petere78@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: Bosnian translation by Kemal Skripic
2004-09-14 <petere78@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl: Fix for bug #860398: Change uses of $var-seq$ to something more appropriate.
2004-07-11 <nyraghu@users.sourceforge.net>
* version.dsl: Closes Bug 912831: the last character of VERSION was being cut off.
2003-05-28 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl: HTML attribs for comments variablized for maintenance.
2003-04-29 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbcompon.dsl: Finding the subtitle for a component should use the parent title if
set; this is consistent with how the title is already set;
closes SF bug 613773.
2003-04-28 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbpi.dsl: Ensure dbhtml-findvalue can handle the pi-field-list being a non-pair,
which may occur in some poorly formed dbhtml PIs; returns #f in this
case.
2003-04-27 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbcompon.dsl: Simplify some code, no functional changes
2003-04-26 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbcallou.dsl, dbparam.dsl: callout graphics and admonition graphics, if needed, share a single
variable, %stock-graphics-extension% -- "stock" here referring to
standard, stock images, e.g., not per document images; this closes
Debian Bug#187429
2003-04-12 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbadmon.dsl: VALIGN should be MIDDLE, not CENTER; closes Debian Bug#187569
2003-04-05 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dblists.dsl: back out my last change; there are 4 places taht use this and until I
understand how varlistentry-term-too-long? is supposed to work at all
I better not mess with it
* dblists.dsl: termlength in varlist is measurement-to-length, not string->number
2003-03-25 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl, dbblock.dsl, dbcompon.dsl, dbgraph.dsl, dbqanda.dsl, dbsect.dsl, docbook.dsl:
move data from db31 into its proper component files
2003-03-21 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* Makefile: Don't hardcode DSSSL file list, use $(wildcard *.dsl); clean is cleaner
2003-02-12 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl, dbhtml.dsl, dbinline.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl: Deprecate TT; use CODE, KBD, SAMP, or VAR instead.
acronym make's use of HTML4's ACRONYM element if %html40%
abbrev make's use of HTML4's ABBR element if %html40%
* dbparam.dsl: Emit a HTML 4.0.1 doctype by default if %html40%, this seems like a
good idea.
Update %spacing-paras% and %html40% docs a bit, without changing their
settings.
2003-02-11 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbtable.dsl: If %html40%, create col elements representing colspecs (implied or
explicit), and don't emit widths on each and every cell.
If %html40%, set the tbody valign properly.
If %html40%, allow relative column sizes such as "1*", thus we're not
emitting 50% when we mean 1* (out of 1*, 1*); the effect is that we're
not forcing pgwide if it's not turned on.
Don't set valign on entries, set them on rows (unless they really are
set on the entries).
Some rewriting for speed/efficiency (doens't seem to make much
difference in my timing testing though)
2003-02-09 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbtable.dsl: Improve table rendering using frame and border attributes on HTML
tables, conditional on HTML4 support being on.
The following cases in table.006.xml are now fixed: outer edit (table
frame but no rowsep nor colseps); rows (frame is topbot, rowsep but no
colsep); columns; tic tac toc (no frame, colsep and rowsep).
Note we still have no way (yet) to override colsep/rowsep in either
colspec or in the individual rows, but I'm working on colspec ->
colgroup.
2003-02-07 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl: move the anchor closer to the content in informal-objects; no way to
get around empty A element in this case
* dbsect.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl: "<a></a>title" changes to "<a>title</a>" -- weblint says we should
avoid empty A elements
* dbtable.dsl: fix a div-by-zero error identified in informaltable.015.xml; would
cause loss of a table header column in some cases
2003-01-21 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl: formal and informal objects reset the processing mode, this closes
Debian#79432f; so <bookinfo><productname> is still in special mode,
but <bookinfo><legalnotice><productname> is not; test is legalnotice.001.xml
2003-01-20 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbgraph.dsl: correct this error: html/dbgraph.dsl:68:1:E: 1st argument for
primitive "append" of wrong type: "#<unknown object 146207544>" not a
list, fix and report from Christopher B. Browne
2003-01-15 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbadmon.dsl, dbautoc.dsl, dbbibl.dsl, dbblock.dsl, dbcallou.dsl, dbcompon.dsl, dbdivis.dsl, dbefsyn.dsl, dbfootn.dsl, dbgloss.dsl, dbgraph.dsl, dbhtml.dsl, dbindex.dsl, dbinfo.dsl, dbinline.dsl, dblink.dsl, dblists.dsl, dblot.dsl, dbmath.dsl, dbmsgset.dsl, dbprocdr.dsl, dbrfntry.dsl, dbsect.dsl, dbsynop.dsl, dbtable.dsl, dbtitle.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl, dbverb.dsl, docbook.dsl:
update docbook URL to http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/;
N.B.: credit for the group option and repeating goes to John Daily
* dblink.dsl: xref to varlistentry using the term, patch from Jens Emmerich; closes
bug 520561
* dbsynop.dsl: Patch #562401 <group choice="opt" rep="repeat">, elipsis should be
outside of group, reference test cmdsynopsis.003
2003-01-14 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl: define a $remark$ function, unifying comment and remark element
rendering; remarks within paras are now rendering using a span rather
than p so they mark up as inline text decoration
2002-12-16 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl, dbparam.dsl: %epigraph-start-col% and %epigraph-content-col% allows customization
of epigraph positioning; %blockquote-start-col% and
%blockquote-end-col% parameters allows customization of the whitespace
around blockquote
2002-06-09 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbbibl.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl: Fix bug #502337: remove 'by' from copyright statements
2002-05-21 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbttlpg.dsl: Make sure email addresses in info elements are links
2002-05-12 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbttlpg.dsl: Bug #494693: bad formalpara formatting on title pages
* dbverb.dsl: Bugs #429663 and #474328 fixed (allow external linespecific content to be indented and numbered). Eight bit or unicode external linespecific content may be problematic though.
2002-05-09 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbgraph.dsl: Bug #448732: make image-library work with imagedata
* dblink.dsl: Allow xref to refnamediv
2002-05-06 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbbibl.dsl: Fix broken style attribute on biblioentries
2002-04-29 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbefsyn.dsl: Format synopsis elements correctly outside of classsynopsis
2002-04-21 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl, dbadmon.dsl, dbblock.dsl, dbcompon.dsl, dbdivis.dsl, dbgloss.dsl, dbindex.dsl, dblists.dsl, dbrfntry.dsl, dbsect.dsl, dbtable.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl:
Make sure named anchors are closed
2002-03-24 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* Makefile: add a clean rule here
2002-03-21 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbfootn.dsl: Fix footnote bugs (Adam, please double-check)
2002-03-20 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbefsyn.dsl: Support freestanding {method,field,constructor,destructor}synopsis
2002-03-16 Adam Di Carlo <adicarlo@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbfootn.dsl: footnotes go in a CSS class "footnote"; reduce code, additional modularity -- to change footnote rendering,
you just have to provide a different "$footnote-literal$" procedure
2002-02-22 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dblink.dsl: Add element-page-number-sosofo back in; always produce "???"
2002-02-20 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dblink.dsl: Remove bogus page-number rules
2002-01-03 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbindex.dsl: Wrap DIVs around index lists
2001-12-06 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl, dbadmon.dsl, dbblock.dsl, dbcompon.dsl, dbdivis.dsl, dbgloss.dsl, dbindex.dsl, dblists.dsl, dbrfntry.dsl, dbsect.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl:
Make anchors empty so that they don't imply style for the things they wrap
2001-12-01 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: Bug #462406 legalnotice-link breaks HTML manifest
2001-11-30 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbsect.dsl: Patch #473116: Section levels
2001-11-18 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbparam.dsl: Bug #482355: use legalnotice id when use-id-as-filename is true
2001-11-14 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: Added Basque, Nynorsk, Ukranian, and Xhosa
2001-11-03 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl: Support pubwork=article on citetitle
2001-10-13 Jirka Kosek <kosek@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl: Fixed bug #470840 - added support for methodname.
2001-10-01 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbverb.dsl: Support linenumbering attribute on verbatim environments
2001-09-29 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbcallou.dsl: Bug #449494: make callouts work even if they appear on the last line of a verbatim environment
2001-09-23 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl: ImageData should use the image function from dbgraph.dsl
* dbgraph.dsl: Patch #421990: support width and depth attributes on graphics
* dbverb.dsl: Patch #461901, make %fix-para-wrappers% affect verbatim
2001-09-18 Nik Clayton <nikclayton@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbcompon.dsl, dbparam.dsl: Add $generate-article-lot-list$, initially empty, which controls what
whether or not a list of titles is generated for articles.
Currently HTML only.
2001-08-30 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl: Fix XML/SGML discrepancy wrt normalization of notation names; move some common stuff into dbcommon
2001-08-25 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl: Fix erroneous literals
* dbsect.dsl: Bug #451005: no id anchor for bridgehead
2001-08-06 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl, dbparam.dsl: Support 'bold' and 'strong' roles on emphasis in the expected way, added %{emphasis,phrase}-propagates-style% parameters
2001-07-05 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbautoc.dsl, dbhtml.dsl: Patch #420730, use dingbat-sosofo instead of literal to create emdash
* dbnavig.dsl: Patch #418401, add accesskey attributes to HTML navigation
* dbparam.dsl: Patch #420012, Add colon to content-title-end-punct
2001-07-04 <uid48421@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: Added Afrikaans and Turkish
2001-05-11 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* docbook.dsl: Support Serbian and Traditional Chinese
2001-05-04 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbprocdr.dsl: Support links to procedures and steps
2001-05-03 Jirka Kosek <kosek@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl: Attributes marked up by <sgmltag> are now in monospace (same as in XSL and print DSSSL).
2001-04-21 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbblock.dsl: Output anchors for formalparas with IDs
* dbinline.dsl: Bug #417697: workaround Netscape limitation with trade named entity.
2001-04-20 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbbibl.dsl: Make sure anchors are produced for bibliomixed elements
2001-04-18 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbinline.dsl, dbparam.dsl: Bug #413982, easy support for man page CGI links on citerefentry
2001-04-16 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* dbnavig.dsl: Added summary attribute to navigation tables
2001-04-04 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* Makefile: New file.
2001-04-03 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* db31.dsl: Fix bug 412548, allow WMF in media objects
2001-04-02 Norman Walsh <nwalsh@users.sourceforge.net>
* .cvsignore, catalog, db31.dsl, dbadmon.dsl, dbautoc.dsl, dbbibl.dsl, dbblock.dsl, dbcallou.dsl, dbchunk.dsl, dbcompon.dsl, dbdivis.dsl, dbefsyn.dsl, dbfootn.dsl, dbgloss.dsl, dbgraph.dsl, dbhtml.dsl, dbindex.dsl, dbinfo.dsl, dbinline.dsl, dblink.dsl, dblists.dsl, dblot.dsl, dbmath.dsl, dbmsgset.dsl, dbnavig.dsl, dbparam.dsl, dbpi.dsl, dbprocdr.dsl, dbrfntry.dsl, dbsect.dsl, dbsynop.dsl, dbtable.dsl, dbtitle.dsl, dbttlpg.dsl, dbverb.dsl, docbook.dsl, version.dsl:
New file.