RE: [docbook-apps] how to adjust revhistory columns?

[Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net>]

That looks entirely too complicated for my novice-level XSL skills  ;)


Now I'm trying to just use a <table>, but setting tocentry="0" on the <table> element isn't suppressing the table's entry in the "List of Tables" - for either html or fo output.  Any ideas?

For instance:

    <table tocentry="0">
      <title>Revision History</title>
      ...
    </table>


Thanks,
Kent







-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:00 PM
To: Kent Watsen; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] how to adjust revhistory columns?

Hi Kent,
To get your layout, you would need to copy those two templates from fo/titlepage.xsl 
to your customization layer and rewrite the table code. In the revhistory template, 
you would need to adjust the column-widths, and in the revision template, put all the 
content into a single fo:table-row with three cells.  Is that sufficient?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Watsen" <kwatsen@juniper.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 7:00 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] how to adjust revhistory columns?


Right now, my columns look like this:

   +------------------------------------------------------------------+
   |          <revnumber>            |             <date>             |
   +------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | <revdescription> - a paragraph containing several sentences -    |
   | much longer than either revnumber or date.  But this rendering   |
   | is not pleasing                                                  |
   +------------------------------------------------------------------+

When I want them to be more like this:

   +------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | <revnumber> | <date> | <revdescription> - a paragraph containing |
   |             |        | several sentences - much longer than      |
   |             |        | either revnumber or date. This rendering  |
   |             |        | is much preferred, since it has just one  |
   |             |        | row and the first two columns are squeezed|
   |             |        | to be just big enough                     |
   +------------------------------------------------------------------+


http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FormatRevhistory.html says:

  "If you want to further customize the revhistory table, for example to
   adjust column widths or create single-row entries, then customize the
   templates in fo/titlepage.xsl that start with:

     <xsl:template match="revhistory" mode="titlepage.mode">
     ...
     <xsl:template match="revhistory/revision" mode="titlepage.mode">
     ...
  "

I've tried a few things, but can't see how to override the default behavior.  How can 
it be done?  - just use a regular table?

Thanks,
Kent


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