Re: [docbook] Fixed layout page numbers in html and epub output

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

It's possible.  The trick is to capture the pagination information and 
apply it to the epub output.  Each of the XSL-FO formatters has an 
intermediate file format that indicates page boundaries.  FOP has two, 
described here:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/intermediate.html

You would have to write an XSLT to extract the page number information 
from the intermediate file.  You could use the olink database to store 
the page number information associated with id values.  You would use 
the @page attribute on each div or obj element in the olink data, as 
desribed here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/OlinkPrintOutput.html#OlinkPageRefs

Then you could customize the epub stylesheet to read and output this 
page number data according to the guidelines.  It would be challenging 
to get the details right, but it seems it could be done.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 3/19/2014 3:44 AM, Peter Fleck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to implement page numbers in the HTML or ePub outputs?
> I mean specifically if there is already a printed book equivalent or PDF created
> from the Docbook file?
>
> IDPF offer advise
> http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/content/xhtml/pagenum.php but
> except for manually encoding these post-conversion is there a way to do it in
> the Docbook markup?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Peter
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