[Refdb-users] General Stylesheet customizations with refdb/docbook ?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Marc,

this goes pretty deep into the innards of SGML. The easiest, though
not recommended way to fix this is to edit the dbparam.dsl file of the
DocBook stylesheets. It is not recommended because you'd have to apply
these changes everytime you update the stylesheets.

A better way is to provide a private driver file with just your
personal customizations. Instructions to write driver files are
available in the online version of "DocBook - The definitive guide" by
Norm Walsh. In addition you'll have to accomplish that the RefDB
stylesheets (print/docbook-refdb.dsl and html/docbook-refdb.dsl) pull
in your private stylesheet instead of the official docbook.dsl
version. If you want to go this way, I'd require some time to fiddle
on a spare box to work out more specific instructions.

regards,
Markus

Marc Baaden writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > another one .. if I want to customize something for the stylesheet,
 > let's say eg I want a justified output, which you usually get by
 > adding (define %default-quadding% 'justify) to a customization
 > stylesheet, where/what do I need to modify ?
 > 
 > Should I modify the bibliography style in the current directory
 > (eg J.Biol.Chem.dsl -- which I tried to no avail) or do I need
 > to give any specific options to eg refdbjade, or indicate a second
 > dsl file ??
 > 
 > Thanks again,
 >   Marc 

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