[docbook-apps] List of figures

[Kai Hagemeister <kh at planoweb dot de>]

Hello,


>> This is a good question, and not necessarily an easy one to answer. 
 I would
>> like to request that you post this to the docbook-apps mailing list 
so that
>> the resolution is recorded in the docbook-apps archive.


I implemented a half-assed solution. It is quite ugly and I'm not
content with it at all but it works.
I inserted the following tags in the xml-sourcecode

<sect1 renderas="listoffigures"><title>List of figures</title></sect1>

I need the attribut renderas="listoffigures" to ignore the complete
string by the tex-stylesheets.
The element title is neccessary because I developed a fold-out menu
(JavaScript) which should include the listoffigures. It looks like chm
output.
In the tex stylesheets I'm ignoring the statement because there exists a
special command which is placed in the xml-source:

<xsl:template match="sect1[@renderas='listoffigures']"></xsl:template>

In the chunk-html stylesheet I wrote:
<xsl:template match="sect1[@renderas='listoffigures']">
   <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.intern"/>
     <xsl:call-template name="list.of.titles">
         <xsl:with-param name="titles" select="'figure'"/>	
         <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="/book//figure"/>	
     <xsl:call-template name="process.chunk.footnotes"/>	
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="sect1.titlepage.intern">
   <!-- I removed the output of the title because gentext which is called
        by list.of.titles, generates the wanted heading -->
   <div class="titlepage">
     <div>
     <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.before.recto"/>
     </div>
     <div>
     <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.before.verso"/>
     <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.verso"/>
     </div>
     <xsl:call-template name="sect1.titlepage.separator"/>
   </div>
</xsl:template>

List.of.titles calls the docbook template figure which writes the list
of figures surrounded by the html-list elements.
As i said, it's a gross solution. It would be a great move if there were
tags like <listOfFigures/>, <listOfTables/> ... which works the same way
as index does.

In my solution I surrounded the listoffigures by a sect1. It was the
only possibility to get the result inside the chunked document to a
desired position. Otherwise the result (listoffigures) was written at
the end of the first chunk  :-( .
Well it would be great if somebody could explain how to prevent the use
of the tag sect and achieve the same result. I don't understand the
chunk-process (where the chunk, header and foooter is generated). If I
would it would be a quite easy task to solve the issue in a much better way.

Regards
Kai


>>>>>>When you say you want
>>>>>>the list of figures at the end of a chunked book, do you mean 
that the
>>>>>>list
>>>>>>is to be appended to whatever content is in the last chunk?  So 
if your
>>>>>>last
>>>>>>HTML chunk contains the last section of an appendix, do you want the
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>>>>>>of
>>>>>>figures to appear after the last paragraph of that section in that
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>>>>NO, i tried it this way because I couldn't find any solution the other
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>>>>>>Or do you want the list of figure to be put into their own chunk?
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>>>>Yes, i wrote a template which calls the template list.of.titles in
>>>>autotoc.xsl. The important of the docbook-Stylesheet seems to be:
>>>>
>>>><xsl:element name="{$toc.list.type}">
>>>>  <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodes" mode="toc">
>>>>  <xsl:with-param name="toc-context" select="$toc-context"/>
>>>>  </xsl:apply-templates>
>>>></xsl:element>
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>>>>So, it generates the html list-tag and calls the template that matches
>>>>figure.
>>>>As a result i've got the list of figures but at the end of the 
first chunk
>>>>or as a sepearte file without navigation and of course not included 
in to
>>>>the rest of the document.
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>>>>>>In that
>>>>>>case, making it appear at the end just means appending it to the 
end of
>>>>>>the
>>>>>>book's table of contents, and having its chunk appear in the "Next"
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>>>>>>of
>>>>>>that last section chunk's header/footer.
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>>>>I want the list of figures to appeare at the and but before the 
index or
>>>>glossar as a seperate chunk.
>>>>I'm stumped. I've no idea how to create the list of figures as a 
seperate
>>>>chunk with navigation and insert it to the right place.
>>>>
>>>>Regards and thanks a lot for your reply
>>>>Kai & Conny
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