List of figures

[Kai Hagemeister <kh@planoweb.de>]

Hello,


 >> This is a good question, and not necessarily an easy one to answer. 
  I would
 >> like to request that you post this to the docbook-apps mailing list 
so that
 >> the resolution is recorded in the docbook-apps archive.


I implemented a half-assed solution. It is quite ugly and I'm not
content with it at all but it works.
I inserted the following tags in the xml-sourcecode

<sect1 renderas="listoffigures"><title>List of figures</title></sect1>

I need the attribut renderas="listoffigures" to ignore the complete
string by the tex-stylesheets.
The element title is neccessary because I developed a fold-out menu
(JavaScript) which should include the listoffigures. It looks like chm
output.
In the tex stylesheets I'm ignoring the statement because there exists a
special command which is placed in the xml-source:

<xsl:template match="sect1[@renderas='listoffigures']"></xsl:template>

In the chunk-html stylesheet I wrote:
<xsl:template match="sect1[@renderas='listoffigures']">
    <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.intern"/>
      <xsl:call-template name="list.of.titles">
          <xsl:with-param name="titles" select="'figure'"/>	
          <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="/book//figure"/>	
      <xsl:call-template name="process.chunk.footnotes"/>	
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="sect1.titlepage.intern">
    <!-- I removed the output of the title because gentext which is called
         by list.of.titles, generates the wanted heading -->
    <div class="titlepage">
      <div>
      <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.before.recto"/>
      </div>
      <div>
      <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.before.verso"/>
      <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.verso"/>
      </div>
      <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.separator"/>
    </div>
</xsl:template>

List.of.titles calls the docbook template figure which writes the list
of figures surrounded by the html-list elements.
As i said, it's a gross solution. It would be a great move if there were
tags like <listOfFigures/>, <listOfTables/> ... which works the same way
as index does.

In my solution I surrounded the listoffigures by a sect1. It was the
only possibility to get the result inside the chunked document to a
desired position. Otherwise the result (listoffigures) was written at
the end of the first chunk  :-( .
Well it would be great if somebody could explain how to prevent the use
of the tag sect and achieve the same result. I don't understand the
chunk-process (where the chunk, header and foooter is generated). If I
would it would be a quite easy task to solve the issue in a much better way.

Regards
Kai


 >>>>>>When you say you want
 >>>>>>the list of figures at the end of a chunked book, do you mean 
that the
 >>>>>>list
 >>>>>>is to be appended to whatever content is in the last chunk?  So 
if your
 >>>>>>last
 >>>>>>HTML chunk contains the last section of an appendix, do you want the
 >
 >>
 >> list
 >>
 >
 >>>>>>of
 >>>>>>figures to appear after the last paragraph of that section in that
 >
 >>
 >> chunk?
 >>
 >
 >>>>NO, i tried it this way because I couldn't find any solution the other
 >
 >>
 >> way.
 >>
 >
 >>>>>>Or do you want the list of figure to be put into their own chunk?
 >>
 >>>>
 >>>>Yes, i wrote a template which calls the template list.of.titles in
 >>>>autotoc.xsl. The important of the docbook-Stylesheet seems to be:
 >>>>
 >>>><xsl:element name="{$toc.list.type}">
 >>>>  <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodes" mode="toc">
 >>>>  <xsl:with-param name="toc-context" select="$toc-context"/>
 >>>>  </xsl:apply-templates>
 >>>></xsl:element>
 >>>>
 >>>>So, it generates the html list-tag and calls the template that matches
 >>>>figure.
 >>>>As a result i've got the list of figures but at the end of the 
first chunk
 >>>>or as a sepearte file without navigation and of course not included 
in to
 >>>>the rest of the document.
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>
 >>>>>>In that
 >>>>>>case, making it appear at the end just means appending it to the 
end of
 >>>>>>the
 >>>>>>book's table of contents, and having its chunk appear in the "Next"
 >
 >>
 >> field
 >>
 >
 >>>>>>of
 >>>>>>that last section chunk's header/footer.
 >>
 >>>>
 >>>>I want the list of figures to appeare at the and but before the 
index or
 >>>>glossar as a seperate chunk.
 >>>>I'm stumped. I've no idea how to create the list of figures as a 
seperate
 >>>>chunk with navigation and insert it to the right place.
 >>>>
 >>>>Regards and thanks a lot for your reply
 >>>>Kai & Conny
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >
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