Re: setting bold, italic, etc in sgml files with PSGML 1.3.0

Lennart Staflin <[email protected]> writes:

> On tisdag, juli 9, 2002, at 09:21 , Ron Ross wrote:
>
>> I noticed some recent changes to face-setting functions in the Changelog
>> file, but I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on. I see
>> that many face operations are conditioned on `sgml-use-text-properties',
>> `t' for text properties, `nil' for overlays. The value of this in my
>> setup is the default (`t'), I've never changed it (besides, that
>> variable exists since at least 1999).
>
> The variable has existed, but its default value has changed. Try setting
> it to nil.

Duh. Setting it to nil did the trick.... But the following proved much
more interesting.

> There is some experimental code hidden away in psgml-debug. It allows
> you to specify the face to use for the content of an element with a
> process instruction (in the DTD):
>
> <?PSGML ELEMENT h1 face=bold >
> <?PSGML ELEMENT h2 face=bold-italic >
> <?PSGML ELEMENT h3 face=italic >
> <?PSGML ELEMENT title face=bold >
> <?PSGML ELEMENT em face=italic >
> <?PSGML ELEMENT i face=italic >
>
> To enable it you will have to load psgml-debug, or better extract the
> code from psgml-debug and put it somewhere else.

Yay! This is working very well. I copied all the PI processing code with
the required library calls to a file, named psgml-data.el, gave it a
(provide 'psgml-data) statement, loaded it with (require 'psgml-data),
added the processing instructions to the DTD, and loaded an instance of
it - works like a charm.

Although I hesitate to modify standard public DTDs in this way, this is
more than fine for my small personal DTD.

Thanks for the great work,

Ron




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