[kde-doc-english]got the doc -- how to make it "pretty"?

[Éric Bischoff]

Hi Ernest,

Sorry for the late answer, your mail got stuck in a queue for approval.

On Monday 05 August 2002 15:58, Ernest Stracener wrote:
> ***BACKGROUND***
> I am writing some documentation for a new application (not currently
> included w/KDE) and need some information.  I've searched and read
> everything I can find to no avail.
>
> I have a Docbook XML document that I have written on the kdex.dtd. I
> used the template.docbook file as basis for my document.
>
> I can run meinproc on the index.docbook file to get individual HTML
> files that can be viewed in a browser.  I can also run meinproc with the
> --cache option to create the index.cache.bz2 file.
>
> ***PROBLEM***
> If I install the index.docbook and cache files in the appropriate
> directory (on my system: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kfoo/ ), I can view
> the contents in KHelpCenter but they appear as plain HTML files -- no
> KHelpCenter logo, KDE logo, etc....as a result, the upper navigation
> aids (e.g. 'prev' 'next') are overlapped with the content.
>
> It seems to me that the answer to the question of "how to make the
> output pretty" must lie in applying a stylesheet during the meinproc
> command, but which stylesheet do I use?  I have been unable to find any
> information on meinproc other than the output of "meinproc --help".

To me it seems that this presentation is done by a CSS style sheet. Look at 
the HTML file, you should see its name.

-- 
Éric Bischoff
KDE : ad expugnandum tabulam scriptoriam suam