Re: [docbook] Re: Running heads in chapters, sections and sidebars

[Xmplar <info@xmplar.biz>]

You could start with some customisations for running headers and footers:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintHeaders.html
Dave

On 19-12-11 11:39 PM, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Lech Rzedzicki<lech@kode1100.com>  writes:
> > I hope that this is common enough scenario and that there is Docbook
> > markup or best practice that I am simply unaware of to capture
> > 'running heads' - that is recurring words, phrases, images, generally
> > 'themes' that, in printed output usually appear somewhere at the top
> > or with a different bacground and typically span the whole section or
> > a chapter or a para.
> >
> > Some examples of this would be:
> > in a book about environment, every few pages there is a section, each
> > time with a different title, but with a recurring theme called "Human
> > Impact"
> You could store the theme in the info with the title, for example in
> bibliomisc. With a role if need be.
>
> > another example:
> > in a DIY book there is a "PRO Tip" every now and then
> And those get rendered in the running head? Well, a pro tip sounds
> like a tip to me, perhaps with a role.
>
> > I don't want to too prescriptive about the rendering, but typically
> > such text gets rendered somewhere, in addition to a title or instead
> > of a title if there isn't one.
> >
> > I think what I am looking for is something similar to subtitle element
> > that could be applied to pretty much any block element, be it para or
> > a chapter and also something that, ideally gets picked up the the Open
> > Toolkit.
> > I am open to suggestions, including ones that require modifying the
> > schema as we are already using a modified Publishers SC schema.
> I don't think the stylesheets currently do anything with running heads
> except perhaps chapter titles.
>
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>                                            norm