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Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Adding Horizontal Rules to Chapter/Part/Section Titles in PDF Output.
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- To: Janeene Webb <webdesign at dawnmist dot net>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:26:58 -0800
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Adding Horizontal Rules to Chapter/Part/Section Titles in PDF Output.
- References: <200311271032.42795.webdesign@dawnmist.net>
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:32:42AM +1100, Janeene Webb wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:16:30PM +1100, Janeene Webb wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For Chapter Titles, Section Titles, and Part Titles I need to be able to
> > > add a
> > > horizontal rule across the page either above the title, below, or both.
> >
> > You can do this without modifying templates because
> > there is an attribute-set for section titles that
> > you can customize. For example, a rule below would be
> > done with the following in a customization layer:
> >
> > <xsl:attribute-set name="section.title.properties">
> > <xsl:attribute name="border-bottom-style">solid</xsl:attribute>
> > </xsl:attribute-set>
> >
> > See this doc for more info on using such attribute-sets:
> >
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SectionTitlePages.html
>
> I've been using this reference heavily for the past week or so. However, it
> does talk about needing to use titlepage tmeplates if you wanted to customise
> Chapter or Part headings - and testing here showed that the section level
> template you've referred to above does not affect the Chapter titles or Part
> Titles.
Right. You'll still need the titlepage.templates.xml
for chapters and parts.
> However, the attribute name above was the main piece of information that I
> couldn't find anywhere, thanks!
>
> >
> > You'll also need an XSL-FO reference to know what all
> > the possible properties are.
>
> *nods* - Do you have any recommendations? Is there anything online? This is
> the bits that I'm finding *really* difficult to find.
There is always the XSL-FO spec itself:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/
Not always easy to use, but it is authoritative!
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