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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Losing header rule when section titles are too long
I seem to be replying to my own posts a lot lately. :-) On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:13:07PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > When the <title> of a <sect?> gets too long to fit on a single line > in the middle cell of the table that makes up the page header, it > flows to a second line, making the table too tall, and hence pushing > the border-bottoms of the cells out of view with it. I assume this > has been discussed before, though could not find a solution in the > list archive. Can I do something as simple as truncate the length > of the middle cell's contents when it's created in pagesetup.xsl > (though I guess the followup question is where would I truncate it)? > Does anyone have a nicer solution for this, or should I shorten my > section titles? Someone suggested (off-list) that I use <titleabbrev> -- I am quite embarrassed I did not think of this myself. I now want to add a customisation to use <titleabbrev> instead of <title> in the running headers, if the former element exists. I just can't seem to see where to do this: I started at the header.table template in pagesetup.xsl, and I'm now in sections.xsl. Where is the section.heading template getting the $title parameter from? I am thinking I want to set $title to titleabbrev in preference to title -- is this the right approach? I am happy to press on, but I assume this is a wheel someone has invented before. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au
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