Re: [docbook-apps] space between chapter number and chapter text?

[Johannes Katelaan <jk@e-integration.de>]

This is obviously a better way to do it. And there is no need to redefine the gentexts anymore.
Works just fine.
Thanks!

Johannes

Am 11.11.2009 um 18:04 schrieb Bob Stayton:

> Hi,
> If you want to position the title at a constant distance from the left margin, regardless of the width of the chapter number, then you can use an fo:list-block.  I called it 'side-by-side' formatting, and an example for section titles is described here:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html
> 
> The trick is to use mode="label.markup" to generate just the chapter number and mode="title.markup" to generate just the title, putting each in a separate part of the fo:list-item.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Katelaan" <jk@e-integration.de>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] space between chapter number and chapter text?
> 
> 
> OK - I found a solution myself. I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but it works fine for me.
> In case somebody is interested in my solution, here it is:
> 
> Change the customization layer for the chapter and section titles as follows:
> 
>   <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0";>
>       <l:l10n language="de">
>           <l:context name="title-numbered">
>               <l:template name="chapter" text="%n|%t"/>
>               <l:template name="sect1" text="%n|%t"/>
>               <l:template name="sect2" text="%n|%t"/>
>           </l:context>
>       </l:l10n>
>   </l:i18n>
> 
> This adds a pipe character as a separator between the chapter or section number and the text.
> 
> Copy the template "component.title" to the customization layer stylesheet and modify the end of this template as follows:
> 
>               <xsl:otherwise>
>                   <!-- not in a section: do nothing special -->
>                   <!-- original code: -->
>                   <!--                        <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>                   -->
>                   <!-- modified code: -->
>                   <fo:inline>
>                       <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before($title,'|')"/>
>                   </fo:inline>
>                   <fo:inline space-start="15mm">
>                       <xsl:copy-of select="substring-after($title,'|')"/>
>                   </fo:inline>
>               </xsl:otherwise>
> 
> Copy the template "section.heading" to the customization layer stylesheet and modify as follows:
> 
>           <xsl:choose>
>               <xsl:when test="$level=1">
>                   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level1.properties">
>                       <!-- original code: -->
>                       <!--                            <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>                       -->
>                       <!-- modified code: -->
>                       <fo:inline>
>                           <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before($title,'|')"/>
>                       </fo:inline>
>                       <fo:inline space-start="11.5mm">
>                           <xsl:copy-of select="substring-after($title,'|')"/>
>                       </fo:inline>
>                   </fo:block>
>               </xsl:when>
>               <xsl:when test="$level=2">
>                   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level2.properties">
>                       <!-- original code: -->
>                       <!--                            <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>                       -->
>                       <!-- modified code: -->
>                       <fo:inline>
>                           <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before($title,'|')"/>
>                       </fo:inline>
>                       <fo:inline space-start="10mm">
>                           <xsl:copy-of select="substring-after($title,'|')"/>
>                       </fo:inline>
>                   </fo:block>
>               </xsl:when>
> 
> Yes, the space between the number and the text is hard-coded and this will break, if the font sizes for chapter and section titles are changed.
> A better solution would be to position the title text relative to the left border of the page. But I don't know how to do this.
> 
> Johannes
> 
> Am 11.11.2009 um 10:16 schrieb Johannes Katelaan:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> In my customization layer I changed the chapter titles as follows:
>> 
>>  <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/>
>>  <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0";>
>>      <l:l10n language="de">
>>          <l:context name="title-numbered">
>>              <l:template name="chapter" text="%n %t"/>
>>          </l:context>
>>      </l:l10n>
>>  </l:i18n>
>> 
>> I did this to get rid of the word "Kapitel" in the German chapter title. This work fine. So I get chapter titles in the form "number and text" now.
>> 
>> My question: Is it possible to change the amount of space between the number and the text? I tried to insert additional space characters between the %n and the %t, but this had no effect at all.
>> 
>> In my final layout I intend to have something like this:
>> 
>> 1         title chapter one
>> 1.1       title section level one
>> 1.1.1     title section level two
>> 
>> with all the texts starting at the same distance from the left border of the paper.
>> 
>> Is this possible?
>> 
>> Johannes
>> 
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