Re: docbook2txt and mediaobjects

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Ben Hratshorne <docbook@green.hartshorne.net> was heard to say:
| I find that when I run docbook2txt, it first uses the HTML conversion,
| then uses lynx or something to make the conversion from HTML to text.
| All in all, that seems like a fine idea., except that none of my figures
| and pictures come out.  The pictures there's no getting around, but I
| figured I could add a <textobject> to the <mediaobject> and then draw
| some ascii art to replace my .pdf or .png.  
|
| No luck, since .png is the preferred <mediaobject> type for html.  

Tag all the appropriate text objects with role="text", then use

   use.role.for.mediaobject="1"
   preferred.mediaobject.role="text"

It's a bit of a hack, but it works. I suppose there should be some other
parameter to indicate that text is preferred, but in the short term...

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | We are more ready to try the
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | untried when what we do is
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | inconsequential. Hence the fact
                                   | that many inventions had their
                                   | birth as toys.--Eric Hoffer
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