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From: Colin Morey <moreyc@××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] documenting using LVM during the install.
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 05:09:26
Message-Id: 1029666998.3371.21.camel@kidney.random-chaos.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] documenting using LVM during the install. by Terje Kvernes
1 On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 01:20, Terje Kvernes wrote:
2 > Colin Morey <moreyc@××××××××××××××××.uk> writes:
3 >
4 > > On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 23:46, Terje Kvernes wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > okay, last night was interesting. I found out that adding a
7 > > > doctype to the standard documentation for Gentoo breaks apart the
8 > > > top images (gtop-s and gtop-b) in Gecko-based user agents. I'm
9 > > > not quite sure of what to do about that, yet. suggestions are
10 > > > welcome.
11 > >
12 > > interesting.. do you mean a doctype to the xml? as the main Gentoo
13 > > front page at http://www.gentoo.org has a Doctype, and yet the
14 > > images look fine for me with Galeon v1.2.5
15 >
16 > ah. interesting. you give the doctype as:
17 >
18 > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
19 >
20 > while xsltproc[1] gives:
21 >
22 > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
23 > "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
24 >
25 interesting... none of the .xml's sets the doc type, that's done in the
26 .xsl, have you tried updating your .xsl with the one in cvs?
27
28 > which breaks the images. hm, I'm not sure if you can omit the
29 > URI[2]. maybe I'll fiddle with this and see what happens. the big
30 > issue is that the image breaks with the doctype xsltproc returns,
31 > since setting the doctype yourself isn't trivial, since it's not
32 > valid XML, and can't be used in the xsl-document. maybe one can
33 > fiddle with CDATA or something? hmpf. not my cup of tea.
34 >
35 you can set it in xml, (the method currently escapse me, but a google
36 search should dig it up).
37
38
39 > > > input on <url: http://terje.kvernes.no/lvm.html > is also welcome.
40 > >
41 > > looking good so far..
42 >
43 > well, I'm not sure what is missing from that document. it is as you
44 > can see produced with the standard xsl.
45 >
46 > > however I'd be tempted to move the paragraph that's in the
47 > > right-hand column of the page,(the summary), into a forward/preface,
48 > > otherwise it will cause the right-hand bar to take up a large amount
49 > > of screen space on low-res browsers.
50 >
51 > I totally agree, but this is the standard Gentoo layout. I'd be
52 > _happy_ to fix some visual aspects like this, and remove some table
53 > usage, and maybe some other small fixes, if people are interested.
54 well, if you'd like to alter the summary section, (main culprit appears
55 to be that long ibm based url, then post the xml on bugs.gentoo.org and
56 assign it to, peitolm@g.o, then I'll get it up on the main
57 website.
58
59 Colin