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RE: separating sections from chapter titles / toc
- From: Stephan Wiesner <stephan at stephan-wiesner dot de>
- To: "'Tobias Grimm (CAS)'" <Tobias dot Grimm at cas-soft dot de>,docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:52:23 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: separating sections from chapter titles / toc
Hi Tobias,
We use a hard page break that can be inserted wherever the author wants.
<xsl:template match="para[@role='pagebreak']">
<xsl:apply-templates />
<fo:block break-after="page"> </fo:block>
</xsl:template>
This will force the authors to set a role, but you are very flexible.
Stephan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Grimm [mailto:Tobias.Grimm@cas-soft.de]
> Sent: Samstag, 30. November 2002 03:39
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK: separating sections from chapter titles / toc
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I managed to put a table of contents at the beginning of each
> chapter by setting the following parameter:
>
> <xsl:param name="generate.toc">
> book/chapter toc,title
> </xsl:param>
>
> So far, so good... now the output from docbook+xsl -> fo ->
> pdf looks like this:
>
> ------------------
> Chapter 1. Chapter
>
> Table of Contents
> 1.1 Section 1
>
> 1.1. Section 1
>
> Blafasel...
> ------------------
>
> What I would like to have now, is that the first section
> (and only the first!) starts on a new page.
> If you have any hints for me, please let me know.
>
> And now, it starts to get much more complicated. In the next
> step, I would like to have something like a chapter
> summarization, that follows each chapter's toc on a new page
> before the first section starts. How can something like this be done?
>
> And at last: Chapters should start always on uneven pages and
> chapter summarizations too. So if i.e. the last section of
> chapter 1 ends at page 11, a blank page has to be added
> before the next chapter starts with page 13. And if the
> title-page of chapter two and it's toc fit on one page, this
> means, another blank page has to be inserted, before the
> chapter summarization on page 15.
>
> I think, this is not quit easy to accomplish, but maybe it's
> possible? What do you think?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tobias
>