Almost all the code discussion under ‘XML Workflow’ are about XSLT, the XML transformations. LaTeX is a very important transformation step, the last one before going to PDF. Most of this code was written about ten years ago, with only small changes made over time. I know much more about …
As always, I cheat a little on ‘X’ day. Yes, six months in, but I’m still working on the A-Z Challenge. Applying Styles to Document Elements Splitting taxonomy and presentation of domain objects was a really good idea. The style details are stored in a file much like the taxonomy …
It works, as far as I’ve taken it. I haven’t started building out the ‘styled’ diagrams yet, nor the document style elements (chapter, section, etc.). I have, however, separated taxonomy from presentation. I can still have presentation details in the taxonomy file, but I also can completely separate them. I …
Still not giving up on the A-Z Challenge! Just going really slowly this year. I utterly failed on time, but will complete the series! I’ve been trying to wrap my head around just how many build variations I can have. There are so many variables that can go into how …
In my last post I had a few things I want to do with tables. The top three turn out to be easier than I expected. In fact, the first two are almost free, in the current code base. Two of the three are trivially done by adding tables as …
Tables. Tables are my bane, as they are for anyone who does layout. And yet, they are phenomenally important in my workflow. They are convenient (for some value of convent) containers for content. Table Rendering Tables are rendered in a tcolorbox, with a title if the table has a title. …
I was ripping the text of a table-heavy book, as I am wont to do, to capture the content for use in my random table roller. For personal use, of course. The product does not contain Open Gaming Content or have any other open license. Word makes a good staging …
I’ve been procrastinating on this post, mostly because I had to get the content straight in my head first. In other words, overthinking. Again. One of the stumbling blocks I’ve faced with this whole overhaul has to do with how to efficiently build it. When you’re coding one thing, you …
… who do I think I’m kidding. ‘Quick’ does not describe my thoughts. But it is convenient, for a ‘Q’ post title. :) I feel like it’s time to pull together a few threads in this year’s posts. Taxonomy Redefinition This entire workflow grew out of publishing for d20-based games, …
I have written before that I consider myself to not have a strong imagination. This is why I’ve spent so long on finding imagination helpers, and designing my own. One of the reasons for this is that I think in abstract terms, and I gravitate to patterns. That is, I …
