Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: need help with DocBook customization

[Ian Castle <ian dot castle at looksystems dot co dot uk>]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 11:51, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> "left-header: is an unlabeled sosofo containing only inline flow
> objects that is aligned with the left margin of the page in the header
> line."

Yes. I've got that too.. must be in my blind spot. So the standard is a
bit contradictory... but the "left-header" definition is more detailed
so that probably ought to be the thing to follow.

Which means that there is indeed a bug with jadetex...

> 
> This is the one I based myself on.  I don't know whether we should
> infer that the standard contradict itself, or whether the first
> statement restrict the second one.  At least I don't know what's the
> point of duplicating 6 times an unrestricted statement, just to have
> all of them further restricted by another one, distant in the text :(
> 
> 
> > So, my opinion on images in headers/footers is that
> [...]
> > - If it did work it would break the standard
> 
> I guess that (open)jade accepting displayed sosofos here is a bug.
> Maybe accepting someting other tha text is also a bug.
> 
> But DSSSL is extensible.  I don't know whether the extension would be
> allowed to use the existing "left-header" & such properties, but at
> the very least, propserties like "displayed-left-header" could be
> created as an extension.
> 
> 
> > The last point is enough to make me not want to spend any more hours
> > struggling with jadetex, fancyhdr etc.
> 
> Yay, that's the only one against which I had something to say !  ;)
> 

Sigh. I was only trying to construct a credible defence for not having
to fix the bug...

> 
> > So, if you want that feature then I think the best thing is to look to
> > XSLT...
> 
> Or to implementing page-sequence ?  I've not looked deep into this,
> and have no idea of the difficulty to map this to TeX...

Now somebody was talking about this, I think, on the openjade-devel list
not so long ago. I'm not sure if they got put off though....