Re: [docbook-apps] No feedback : PDF output formatting

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tristan Fiedler" <fiedler@cshl.edu>
To: "Docbook-Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] No feedback : PDF output formatting


> Could someone with DocBook XSL - PDF expertise please comment on the 3
> queries below (submitted several days ago)
>
> Cheers,        Tristan
> ---
> Tristan J. Fiedler
> Postdoctoral Fellow - Stein Lab
> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>
> Current Output : http://dev.wormbook.org/sample_wntsignal/wnt_signal.pdf
>
> Hello DocBook users,
>
> In my PDF output, I have removed the default title for the
> <bibliography> in order to simply use a <sect1> title, as shown below.
>
> I have 3 problems which I can not resolve:
>
> a.  An additional blank line (so, now there is twice as much whitespace
> as compared to other section titles) is inserted between the title (ie.
> "References") and the first entry.

I think this comes from the match="bibliography" template in fo/biblio.xsl:

    <xsl:otherwise>
      <fo:block id="{$id}"
                space-before.minimum="1em"
                space-before.optimum="1.5em"
                space-before.maximum="2em">
        <xsl:call-template name="bibliography.titlepage"/>
      </fo:block>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:otherwise>

Those hardcoded space properties should probably not be here, but should be
part of the bibliography.titlepage processing.  But for now you will need to
customize this template to remove them.

> b. The PDf "bookmarks" has the References as a drop down menu.  The
> drop down menu contains only a single entry, however, and that entry is
> "References" as well.  This is not very elegant.

The PDF bookmarks are separate templates, and they don't know that you
emptied out the "bibliography.titlepage" template.  Each XSL-FO processor
has its own templates for PDF bookmarks, so we need to know which processor
you are using.

> c.  I am using a footnote after an author name on the title page.  How
> can I remove the default space which is inserted before the footnote
> symbol?  This is clearly evident at the URL listed below.

This is a bug that was fixed in CVS, but has not yet been released.  The
snapshot build should take care of it.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net