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by John Maddock
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Matias Capeletto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This morning John pointed me a css hacked by Rene Rivera that lets us
> "see" a normal html page as quickbook sources. I think it is a
> brilliant idea.
> I have hacked the missing parts to carry this idea to a neat end.
> Please go to:
> http://tinyurl.com/3yukos
>
> Use a decent browser like firefox 2. (and make sure the page is not
> cached in your pc)
> Go in the menu to "View" --> "Page Style" --> "Quickbook Source"
>
> Magic!
> :)
>
> You can browse the document because I have not hidden the navigation
> machinery.
> Now you guys have to find a way to copy the result, ctrl-c in firefox
> does not work... I do not care. If we have to hack firefox sources,
> lets do it ;)
>
> Two cases:
>
> (A) Docbook to quickbook translation
> This will be a piece of cake. We convert the boostbook xml into html
> using xslt and then see it as quickbook sources with our favourite
> browser.If you use Opera then you can cut and paste the quickbook markup directly
from the browser... however, I notice that code blocks come out as [pre
... ] blocks which is wrong, but easy to fix afterwards.
Also Opera has quite a few issues rendering your current browser scheme: see
screenshot attached for an example (BTW Opera ids a free download these
days, so it's easy enough for folks to test this).
HTH, John.
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> Hi,
>
> This morning John pointed me a css hacked by Rene Rivera that lets us
> "see" a normal html page as quickbook sources. I think it is a
> brilliant idea.
> I have hacked the missing parts to carry this idea to a neat end.
> Please go to:
> http://tinyurl.com/3yukos
>
> Use a decent browser like firefox 2. (and make sure the page is not
> cached in your pc)
> Go in the menu to "View" --> "Page Style" --> "Quickbook Source"
>
> Magic!
> :)
>
> You can browse the document because I have not hidden the navigation
> machinery.
> Now you guys have to find a way to copy the result, ctrl-c in firefox
> does not work... I do not care. If we have to hack firefox sources,
> lets do it ;)
>
> Two cases:
>
> (A) Docbook to quickbook translation
> This will be a piece of cake. We convert the boostbook xml into html
> using xslt and then see it as quickbook sources with our favourite
> browser.
from the browser... however, I notice that code blocks come out as [pre
... ] blocks which is wrong, but easy to fix afterwards.
Also Opera has quite a few issues rendering your current browser scheme: see
screenshot attached for an example (BTW Opera ids a free download these
days, so it's easy enough for folks to test this).
HTH, John.
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