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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:	DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:	New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)
Moderator:	CLOSET::ADLER

Created:	Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	897
Total number of notes:	4397

546.0. "Designing your own tags" by VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER () Mon Jun 22 1987 17:57

People have asked about how they might define their own tags.

We have a book in preparation called 
The Tag Designer's Guide, which will explain all.  
That book is still a few months away from publication.

Until the book is published, it does not make sense to try to 
design your own tags.  If we were to supply partial information on tag
design, it would only get you in trouble and get us more questions.

We have a book called The DOCTYPE Designer's Guide, which is part 
of the version 1 documentation.  It explains how to modify an existing 
doctype to suit your layout needs.  Basically, you can change design
parameters that control fonts and spacing, headers and footers, page
size, etc, for the global tags.

The DOCTYPE DEsigner's Guide does not describe how to design tags, however.  
So you are stuck with the current tags.

We made the decision not to make the Tag Designer's Guide part of the
EXTERNAL product many months ago.  And our efforts in the interim
have been on getting that EXTERNAL product (which the customers pay for)
into the best possible shape before it goes to the SDC.

We recognize that many users, internal and external, will want to 
design their own tags as well as modify design parameters. But time
and budget said that we would have to put off the tag design book 
to a later release.

bill

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
546.1	AH FINALMENTE !!!!!!!!!	FNYADG::ARBUAH		`Wed Jul 08 1987 09:17`	9
	I am very glad to hear about the announcement of the Tag Designer's Guide. It will be a great enhancement to the document documentation set. Please keep me up to date with the developments Thanks, Oswald.
546.2	Problem making new .STT file	QRTRS::COGHILL	Steve Coghill, Luke 14:28	`Tue Aug 04 1987 11:47`	26
	Back under BL6 there was a sparse document explaining how to design tags and generate a new .STT file. We did this for several document types and all went well. When BL7 came out we converted a couple and no problems. We skipped BL8 and yesterday I installed V1.0 (BL9?). Now when I try to build the .STT file with the command DOCUMENT file.GDX DOCTYPE TAG I get no .STT file. The system seems to process the file (elapsed time observation), but I can find no output. When I tried a /OUTPUT=FOO.STT just to see what happened, DOCUMENT renamed my .GDX file to FOO.STT. Has something changed between BL7 and V1.0? I made sure that the DOC$DESIGNS.DAT file in DOC$PERSONAL_FORMATS had the correct designations. The DOC$DESTINATIONS.DAT file has the following for the TAG_TABLE destination: DESTINATION TAG_TABLE TAG - /exclude_action=(text_formatter,device_converter,print) - /output_filetype=.STT
546.3	Save intermediate files	VAXUUM::SEGAL		`Tue Aug 04 1987 11:54`	3
	Add /KEEP to the command line. Lee
546.4	OK, I give up -- where is the book?	CASEE::CLARK	Ward Clark	`Tue Aug 25 1987 13:32`	7
	I've seen several mentions of the Tag Designer's Guide in various topics but have searched in vain for a pointer to the draft document. Now that Patti has provided me with a prototype <AXIOM> tag definition, I'd like to do my homework before taking the prototype out for a spin. -- Ward
546.5	Tag Translator/Designer Book	CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN	Urboid scowler	`Tue Aug 25 1987 13:37`	10
	$ vd vaxuum::use3$:[sdml.v10]tag_translator Directory VAXUUM::USE3$:[SDML.V10] TAG_TRANSLATOR.LN03;1 1684 10-AUG-1987 12:29 TAG_TRANSLATOR.POST;4 2398 10-AUG-1987 13:14 Total of 2 files, 4082 blocks.