Re: [docbook-apps] Page Number Appearance

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:56:17AM +1100, Janeene Webb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have been hunting through Google, the XSL stylesheet guide, a few fo parameter 
> references, but cannot find anywhere how to customise the *appearance* of the 
> page numbers in headers/footers. It's *not* using the header text format, so 
> the headers are looking strange with underlining under everything except the 
> page number. And the font size used for the page number is slightly larger 
> than the font size in the rest of the header.
> 
> What I'm doing is for even pages, having a left-aligned header:
> pg# - booktitle
> 
> And for odd pages, having a right-aligned header:
> chaptertitle - pg#
> 
> Have got everything aligned properly, displaying where they ought to, but I 
> cannot find a way to format the font and font decoration for the page 
> numbers.
> 
> I've tried wrapping the whole thing in a fo block, a fo inline, adding the 
> text-decoration stuff to the fo:pagenumber call, without success, and am now 
> stumped. It's not using the header.content.properties stuff for pagenumbers 
> in the headers, and I cannot find where else to set these for the page 
> number.
> 
> Any suggestions? Am using the XSL 1.62.4 stylesheets, and fop 0.20.5

Can you show us what you tried in your customization?

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