Re: [docbook-apps] add newline to generated text?

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

Hi Jason,

No, there is nothing you can put in the text attribute value that will generate a new line that shows up in your displayed output.  Inserting a &#x0A; will insert a new line in the output file, but in neither HTML nor XSL-FO is such a line break character formatted as a line break.  Instead, it is treated as just a bit of white space to be collapsed into a single space when lines are laid out in the display.

 

If you want to do this for XSL-FO  output, my book has a section that describes a stylesheet customization to get the label (DocBook's term for the chapter number part) on a separate line from the title.  You can view it online for free at:

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html#ChapterTitles

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Jason Zech

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:50 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] add newline to generated text?

Hi all,

 

I am trying to customize the chapter title output. I?m going from DB5 to single-file HTML (and later to epub) using the ns version of 1.76.

 

I?ve got a customization working on the generated text of the chapter title, but I?d like to generate a newline between the chapter number and the chapter title.

 

Here is the customization I have.

 

  <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/>
  <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0">
    <l:l10n language="en">
      <l:context name="title-numbered">
        <l:template name="chapter" text="%n %t"/>
      </l:context>
    </l:l10n>
  </l:i18n>

 

I need something between %n and %t but I?m beginning to think I can?t use any of kind of newline here. Is it possible?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Jz

 

 

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