custom header table / current sect1 titles in header

[Thomas.Gier@imperia.net]

Hi,

I have some problems for which I can't find a solution. This amazes me 
because my intentions aren't that extraordinary, I think. Maybe a solution 
is obvious and I'm just missing it or these issues need a advanced 
knowledge which I definitely have not. I'm fairly at a loss ...

I'm using docbook-xsl version 1.61.3 for FO print output ...

1.
I need customizing for header.table. The header of every odd or first page 
should look like this:

------------------------------------------------
|                                              | 
|                          Chapter title (bold)|
|                          Sect1 title (normal)|
------------------------------------------------

The header of every even page should look like this:

------------------------------------------------
|                                              |
|                                              |
|Sect1 title (normal)                          |
------------------------------------------------

I added another variable (containing a second table) to my customized 
version of header.table. The new table finds it's way into the document 
but I don't know how to 'address' these new table cells and put the sect1 
header (assumed this can be done at all -> 2.) into the leftmost (resp. 
rightmost) cell. It already contains the chapter title as the original 
table does but this is to be exchanged by the sect1 title. Which brings me 
to my second problem:

2.
Is there a way of putting the current sect1 title into the page headers at 
all? I can easily put the title of the first section appearing on a page 
into the page header using titleabbrev.markup, but I can't do this with 
the current sect1 title. All I get is the title of the first section 
heading appearing on the current page - this may be sect4 which should not 
appear in the page header.

Both issues together with some minor ones (which I hopefully can handle 
with the help of the documentation) get in the way of finishing my 
customization layer and thus prevent me from switching back to normal 
operational mode which is writing technical documentation. I'm really 
eager to start working with the new tool chain :-) ...

As you can see by the character of my problems I'm a newbie to the whole 
thing and I hope anybody understands what I'm talking about at all because 
my English is rather poor ... my German is much better :-) ...


Thanks for reading
Thomas Gier
Technical Writer
Germany


Thomas Gier
Technical Writer
Germany