Re: [docbook-apps] page headers for <article><section>

[Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>]

Title: Re: [docbook-apps] page headers for <article><section>

Hi Bob

Many thanks, that sorts out my present article problem, but it now raises a further question about headers for book/chapter/section with appendices.

<book>

  <chapter>...

    <section>...</section>

  </chapter>

  <appendix>

    <section>...</section>

  </appendix>

</book>

If I use:

        <xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'odd' and $position = 'center'">
           <fo:retrieve-marker
              retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
              retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"

              retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"/>

          <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="title.markup"/>

        </xsl:when>

for a book with sections in chapters and appendices, I get the odd page header title as a concatenation of <title of chapter 1 section 1> and <title of chapter 1>   OR  <title of section 1 in appendix A> and <title of appendix A> with no separator between them (I can make these look presentable by adding &#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; to the end of section titles, but that's cheating)

If I use

        <xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'odd' and $position = 'center'">
           <fo:retrieve-marker
              retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
              retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"

              retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"/>

        </xsl:when>

then I get the section title alone on the odd pages BUT I lose the Appendix title and get a blank header on odd pages of an appendix.  For a section in an appendix I get the section title alone on odd page headers.

It would be nice to get <book title> on even page headers, with something like  '<section title> in <chapter title>' or '<section title> in <appendix title>' on odd page headers.  (If I put 'in' in place of the &#xA0;'s that ruins the display of section titles of course.)  Or possibly better:  '<chapter title> : <section title>'.

At the moment I can't see the need for sect2 level titles in headers, but you never know!

I've attached my test files and pdf output for the book case.  All help much appreciated.

Ron

> Hi Ron,
> The problem seems to be the last line of this:
> >          
> > <fo:retrieve-marker
> >            
> > retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
> >            
> > retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"
> >            
> > retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"/>
> >          
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="."
> > mode="title.markup"/>
> The header.content template is processed in the context of the element
> generating the page sequence.  In this case, the article is the
> context element.  So select="." means selecting the
> article and generating its title.  If you delete that line, then
> the retrieve-marker is left to produce the section title.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net

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testbook.xml

testbook.xsl

testbook.pdf