From nicholas@uci.edu Tue Jul 17 01:50:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 08:50:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 75500 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 08:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 08:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta2 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 08:50:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA12634; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:50:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:50:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Nick buggers up yet again Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS This time, thanks to my confusion about xml specs, and some dodgy downloads, it turns out that I've been caught unaware of the fact that in XML, all attributes have to be quoted. Which means that in the next upload, a diff is going to be useless, as every tenth line will be different (particularly in the brochure, with its abundace of tables.) I am an idiot, and I apologise. Furthermore, Docbook's support of indexes is suspect; on its own, it doesn't want to do index ranges (pp. x-y) at all, and will give only the first of two values. Furthermore, Docbook is meant to be able to specify an index entry pertains to a whole section of a document (say, a subchapter), and give you in the index the pertinent number of pages. I have found an RTF workaround for the latter (when the range of text to be indexed is specified by milestones), and nothing under any regime for the latter. This will degrade TeX output relative to RTF for the index (you'll get the first page, rather than a page range); sorry, guys, it's not my fault openjade (the main culprit) is still whacked. Anyway, my other non-professional interests are already knocking on the door, so I really am running out of time on all this; I will attempt to index the texts in the next couple of days, and I suspect that will be it in terms of substantive contributions to these documents. Your corrections and suggestions, of course, will still be welcome over the next month, at least. -- /||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\ | "One must first know that traditionally a Japanese bus has carried not || | only a driver but one or more young girls who stand in the aisles and || | sell tickets, announce stops, and in general console the passengers for|| | the inadequacies and discomforts of this transient world." \ | --- Roy Andrew Miller, _The Japanese Language_, p. 251 \ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| \||||nicholas@uci.edu|||||||Transient Passenger||||||Nick Nicholas|||||||||| ==\||||||||||||www.opoudjis.net||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||/ ()() ()() ()()