[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home]
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: argh ... how do i define page breaks using CSS?
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:21:59PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > probably off topic for this list, but the only outstanding > > > issue i have is how to force page breaks before each "<section>". > > > and by that, i mean each section, regardless of its level. > > > > > > what i want is a CSS definition that lets me say i want a > > > page break before every <chapter> element and every <section> > > > element. as it stands, i get a page break before every > > > first-level section in a chapter, and that's it. i've checked > > > on google, added what looks like the right directive to the > > > css file -- no luck. > > > > uhm, what is a page in html ? Are you talking about getting > > separate html files for sections ? That's done with the chunker, > > and there are parameters in the xsl stylesheets to control the > > granularity of the chunks. > > > > I can't see how css relates to pages, but may be you are talking > > about something entirely different. > > no, i'm just explaining this badly. yes, i'm referring to chunking. > as a basis for my first docbook manual, i used tim waugh's > "selfdocbookx" example. one of the .xsl files refers to a .css > file, so i figured i'd add a "page-break-before" directive in > that file to break before every section. didn't work. > as it stands, each first-level section is generated as a chunk, > when i'd really like *every* section directive to define a new > chunk. > > i've read everything i can find, and haven't figured out how to > fix this. You might want to check out the DocBook XSL doc that I'm writing. It's currently unfinished, but does have a section on chunking. http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/index.html My intended audience is folks like you that are just getting started. I'd appreciate any feedback you might have. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@caldera.com
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home]
Powered by eList eXpress LLC