Re: Re: Custom docbook stylesheets.

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 27, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On May 27, 2009, at 2:13 AM, Dale Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings List,
>>>
>>> I was suprised an pleased to discover that the docbook exporter has
>>> the ability to apply the stylesheets to transform to fo and to also
>>> process that to pdf.  Somehing I'd like to see is a document  
>>> specific
>>> way to specify the stylesheet.  I tried setting
>>> org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command in a "Local Variables:"  
>>> section,
>>> but it seems the variable is being used from a different buffer.
>>>
>>> So, what do you think about some kind of document property to
>>> overrride a global setting?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Dale.  I think this is a very good idea,  
> and
> I will try to make the changes to support local variables overriding  
> the
> global settings.
>
> Maybe we can have a separate variable called
> org-export-docbook-stylesheet to make it easier to set in each file  
> and
> flexible to use (in org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command, etc.).  What
> do you think?
>
>>> The current org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command is a format string,
>>> with a fixed order of arguments (the fo filename and then the input
>>> docbook filname).  Thats probably good enough for most (all?) xslt
>>> processors, but things may be more limited when it comes to also
>>> specifying the stylesheet.  Do we need to have some kind of special
>>> markers in the format string for where the different options go?
>>> Something like $i $o and $s (for in, out, and stysheet)?
>
> I thought about doing something similar to make the commands easier to
> set, but stopped pursuing that after seeing the format string style
> worked fine.  I am not sure if any other Emacs modes/packages have  
> done
> something like this, i.e. using (semi)named arguments.
>
>> Maybe we could have something like #+XSLT: or so to configure buffer-
>> local setting for this variable......
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Carsten!  It's a little hard for me to  
> decide
> which way is better to specify the stylesheet: "#+XSLT" or "Local
> Variables:".  Maybe "#+XSLT" is better?  I don't see many local
> variables being used in Org mode...  Please advise.

This is only a mater of convenience.  The #+ syntax is easier to
set up and refresh, so I prefer it for stuff that is frequently changed.
But you can also use file variables of course....

- Carsten