Re: [docbook-apps] Running heads question for XSL:FO

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

I went ahead and made this into a parameter, "marker.section.level",
for the FO stylesheet.  If it is set to 2, for example, only sect1 and
sect2 titles are candidates for running headers or footers.
This should be in the next release.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
To: "Billard, Trish" <trish.billard@hp.com>;
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Running heads question for XSL:FO


> Seems like choosing the heading level to track in running headers or
> footers should be a feature controlled by a parameter.  I'll see if I
> can get that in the next release.
>
> In the meantime, you could customize the template in fo/sections.xsl
> that starts with:
>
> <xsl:template match="section/title
>                      |simplesect/title
>                      |sect1/title
>                      |sect2/title
>                      |sect3/title
>                      |sect4/title
>                      |sect5/title"
>               mode="titlepage.mode"
>               priority="2">
>
> You will see that it computes a variable named "level" that
> contains the section level.  You could use that variable in
> a choose statement to set the "marker" parameter used in
> the call to the template named section.heading further down.
>
> For example:
>
> <xsl:variable name="marker">
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="$level = 1">1</xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> Then call "section.heading" with the marker parameter set to that value:
>
> <xsl:call-template name="section.heading">
>   <xsl:with-param name="marker" select="$marker"/>
>   etc.
>
> If you look in the section.heading template in fo/sections.xsl,
> you will see that the fo:marker output depends on the $marker
> parameter, which is by default 1.  With your change, it will
> only be 1 for level 1 sections.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Billard, Trish" <trish.billard@hp.com>
> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>; <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:27 PM
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Running heads question for XSL:FO
>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
>   Thanks for your response! Actually, I have looked at your site, and I
even
> have your book on my wish list for Christmas.  : )
> The information has been tremendously helpful!
>   But here's my problem.  I've altered the header.content template such
that
> the "titleabbrev.markup" part is for $position = 'left', the draft.text
part
> is in the center, and the following for the right:
>
>    <xsl:when test="($sequence = 'odd' or $sequence='even') and $position =
> 'right'">
>      <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
>             retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"
>             retrieve-boundary="page"/>
>       </xsl:when>
> (I'm pretty sure this is an exact copy from the example, except for the
> $position value.)
>
> My output pages are like this:
>
> -- 1st page --
> Chapter 1. My Chapter Title
> Table of Contents
> Sect1 Title
> blah blah blah
> Sect2Title
> blah blah blah
> Sect3Title
> blah blah
> first row of an informal table
> -----------
>
> -- 2nd page --
> remaining rows of the informal table
> Sect4title
> blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> -------------
>
> The headers for the 2nd page are "My Chapter Title" on the left (good),
and
> "Sect4Title" on the right.
> What I'd like to be able to get is the Sect1 Title.  That is, I want the
> right running head to change only when a new Sect1 appears.
> I'm not sure how to do this.  I can't set the retrieve-boundary to
> page-sequence, because that's the beginning of the chapter.
> Actually, I kind of expected the right side to be my Sect3Title, because
the
> "first-including-carryover" seemed to imply it would take whatever was
being
> carried over from the previous page. So I'm confused about what
> "first-including-carryover" means.
> Can what I'm asking be done?  Can you recommend a good FO reference site
on
> the web?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Trish Billard
> trish.billard@hp.com
> (408) 285-5462
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 1:23 AM
> To: Billard, Trish; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Running heads question for XSL:FO
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Billard, Trish" <trish.billard@hp.com>
> >  Now I'm getting my feet wet with XSL:FO and PDF output.  I'm using the
> 1.59.2 version > of the stylesheets, rendering using FOP 0.20.5
>
> >  I've altered the header.content so that the chapter title is on the
left
> side of every page.
> >  Now I want the right side of every page to contain the sect1 title,
even
> if the page itself
> > only has the child sect2, sect3, etc. elements on it.
> >  How can I do this in FO?  Has anyone tried this?
>
> Hi Trish,
> There is an annotated example that does just that in:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintHeaders.html
>
> [modesty aside]
> This is a perfect example of why
> anyone who wants to customize the DocBook XSL stylesheets
> should use my book "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide"
> (available at Amazon). If you can't afford to buy a copy,
> you can read it in HTML at the above site.
> [modesty restored]
> Don't take my word for it. Norm says "Buy this book!"
> http://norman.walsh.name/2003/07/08/buythisbook
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> http://www.sagehill.net
>
>
>
>
>
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