Formatting chapter and section titles

[Erik Leunissen <e.leunissen@hccnet.nl>]

Hello all,

I've got a few questions regarding the formatting and lay-out of chapter
and section titles.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Erik Leunissen
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1. How can I suppress a trailing dot in automatic component/section labels?

This parameter in a customization layer:

    <xsl:param name="section.autolabel" select="1"></xsl:param>

generates section labels like:

    "2.3. Some dummy section title"

I'd prefer to omit the trailing dot in the section number and make it
appear as:

    "2.3 Some dummy section title"

Is that possible (as well for sections as for chapters)?
If so, how should I proceeed?


2. How can I customize chapter labels to:
- omit the word "Chapter" and use the number only.
- separate the chapter number from its title with white space?


3. How can I insert white space around chapter titles?


Desired effect (the plus sign denoting extra white space):
---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
Chapter 3. Getting started
+
+
+
    This is the first paragraph of chapter 3. Bla, bla ...
    and bla and bla, ...

3.1. First section in chapter 3
---------------------------------------------------------------


I use the following snippet as part of a customization layer, but it
inserts white space before the first child following the paragraph title
(e.g. a paragraph) and the first section in that chapter, which is not
what I intended.

# +v
<xsl:attribute-set name="component.title.properties">
	<xsl:attribute name="font-size">
		<xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master * 3.0"></xsl:value-of>
		<xsl:text>pt</xsl:text>
	</xsl:attribute>
	<!-- the following lines do not have the desired effect -->
	<xsl:attribute name="space-before">2.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-before.minimum">1.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-before.optimum">2.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-before.maximum">3.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-after">2.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-after.minimum">1.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-after.optimum">2.0em</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:attribute name="space-after.maximum">3.0em</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
# -v


Observed effect:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 3. Getting started
+
+
+
    This is the first paragraph of chapter 3. Bla, bla ...
    and bla and bla, ...
+
+
+
3.1. First section in chapter 3
---------------------------------------------------------------

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