Re: [docbook-apps] Sidebar height

["Lily Galle" <lily.galle@gmx.net>]

Dear all,

Hallo Bob, thank you very much for your answer!

I think I did not tell the problem clearly enough. I am Sorry. As you said perhaps you did not understand me exactly. I tried your advice and failed. 

According your advice I wrote the following code in myStylesheet.xsl
 <xsl:param name="body.margin.left">1.2in</xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="body.margin.right">1.2in</xsl:param> 
 
Then I added the following code in pagesetup.xsl in some simple-page-master 
<fo:region-body  margin-left = "{$body.margin.left}"
        margin-right = "{$body.margin.right}"  ... …  

Then I tested it with the myDocbook.xml. (This file is at the very end of this Mail).  The paragraph two and paragraph three intruded in sidebar area. This is not what I want. 

What I need is: 
The paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 do not have sidebars with texts. There should be white space beside Paragraph 2 and paragraph3. And these white spaces are as wide as sidebars.

Through the whole book there should be always white spaces or sidebars beside the normal texts. The normal texts should never intrude in these regions. 

At the very end of this Mail is myDocbook.xml for testing.

Is there a way to manage it in xsl? It would be really great; it will save me many troubles. 

Thank you very much for help!

Lily


My book is “double.sided”. What I want looks like this: 

Paragraph one. Here is the normal text	Motivation
about Motivation. Beside this paragraph
 is one sidebar with texts.

Paragraph two. Here are other normal 
texts about Motivation. These texts do 
not have sidebars with texts. But there
should be white spaces on the right
side.The white spaces are as wide as 
the sidebars. 

Paragraph three. there are some white
spaces on the right side. 

Paragraph four: This paragraph is about	Activity
activity.

Paragraph five: Another paragraph 
aboutactivity. There are some white 
spaces on the right side. The white
spaces are as wide as the sidebars. 

Paragraph six: A paragraph about result.	Result

Paragraph seven: Another paragraph 
About result. 



> Hi,
> I'm not sure I completely understand the problem.  When you say "the 
> “paragraph Texts” appear in the sidebar region", it sounds like you
> are 
> using the sidebars to set the margin for the body text.  Rather, the 
> region-body in the page master should set the margin for the body text. 
> Then the sidebars can be placed in that area as floats and you don't have
> to 
> adjust the heights of the sidebars.
> 
> If you really must set the sidebar height, you'll need to duplicate the 
> mechanism that processes the <?dbfo sidebar-width?> processing
> instruction. 
> Some of that is in fo/block.xsl and some in fo/pi.xsl.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lily Galle" <lily.galle@gmx.net>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I use XEP. My book is double-sided.
> >
> > I use sidebar:
> >   <?dbfo sidebar-width="1.2in"?><?dbfo float-type="outside"?>
> >
> > For example: “Motivation”, “Activity” and “Result” are the
> Text in 
> > sidebars. I would like to have the following layout in the whole book:
> >
> > Paragraph 1: about motivation.    Motivation
> >
> > Paragraph 2: about motivation.
> >
> > Paragraph 3: about motivation
> >
> >
> > Paragraph 4: about activity. Activity
> >
> > Paragraph 5: about activity.
> >
> >
> > Paragraph 6: about Result.        Result
> >
> > Paragraph 7: about Result.
> >
> >
> > The Problem is: Every sidebar should have different height. I have to 
> > adjust every sidebar height to the height of the paragraphs. I do it
> with 
> > <literallayout> </literallayout>. If the sidebar heights are not well 
> > adjusted, then the “paragraph Texts” appear in the sidebar region
> and the 
> > layout is no more pretty.
> >
> > If the book has 200 pages, then I have to write many <literallayout> 
> > </literallayout>.
> >
> > I would like the following very much: the height of the sidebar can be 
> > adjusted automatically to the height of the Paragraphs. How can I manage
> > this?
> >
> > Help will be very much appreciated. Thanks!!
> >
> > Lily


myDocBook.xml for testing: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book version="5.0" xml:lang="de" 
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; >
   
<title>The Big Book Title</title>
  <chapter>
       <title>  Chapter 1 Title</title>
       <sidebar>   <?dbfo float-type="outside"?>
              <para>first sidebar text. </para>
       </sidebar>
        
       <para>Paragraph one. Here is the normal text. 
                 Beside this paragraph is one sidebar with texts.  
       </para>
       <para>Paragraph two. Here are other normal texts.
                 These normal texts should not appear in the sidebar region.
                  But they did.
      </para>
      <para>
              Paragraph three. Normal texts again. 
              But they intrude in the sidebar region. It is not what I want.
      </para>
   </chapter>
 </book>




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