Re: [docbook-apps] Chunked HTML and Footnote Numbering

[DavePawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Chris Yocum wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>      I have written up a customization layer for Chunked HTML and MHRA
> footnote/bibliography style.  Works very well actually.  However, I
> noticed that the footnote numbers are not restarted for each chapter
> (or in the case that I noticed, the chapter which is in <d:chapter>
> tags and the introduction which is in <d:preface> tags).  It's not a
> huge problem but I just wanted to know if there was some parameter
> that I was missing in my customization layer or if this was actually
> an issue.


Not that I could find Chris.

It's the 'from '  attribute of xsl:number
Instead of 'book' it needs to be set to chapter.


I'd suggest looking at footnote.xsl... although that isn't
very straightforward.

<xsl:template match="d:footnote" mode="footnote.number">
looks to be a good place to start though

    <xsl:otherwise>
       <xsl:variable name="pfoot" 
select="preceding::d:footnote[not(@label)]"/>
       <xsl:variable name="ptfoot" 
select="preceding::d:tgroup//d:footnote"/>
       <xsl:variable name="fnum" select="count($pfoot) - count($ptfoot) 
+ 1"/>

       <xsl:choose>
         <xsl:when test="string-length($footnote.number.symbols) &gt;= 
$fnum">
           <xsl:value-of select="substring($footnote.number.symbols, 
$fnum, 1)"/>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
           <xsl:number value="$fnum" format="{$footnote.number.format}"/>
         </xsl:otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
     </xsl:otherwise>

Assuming you're not using @label...

Its the variable pfoot that contains the number (easy to test).

As is done here, you'd need to exclude the table based ones.
(untested)

  <xsl:variable name="pfoot" 
select="ancestor::d:chapter//d:footnote[not(@label)]"/>

Ditto with ptfoot.

HTH







regards

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