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Re: DocBook and DSSSL style sheets to do fancy things


At 03:31 PM 2/23/01 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>[Follow-ups to docbook-apps, please]
>
>/ Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com> was heard to say:
>| I am trying to come to grips with creating or modifying style sheets.
>| 
>| I want to do thing like, in the Book style have offset section titles,
like:
>| 
>|   1.1 The first section
>|               The text starts here ... and so on
>| 
>|   1.2 The second section
>|               So does this section , etc ...
>| 
>| Does anyone have any pointers?
>
>You haven't indicated if your working with DSSSL or XSL stylesheets,
>but in either case I think the answer is to set the body indent to
>where you want the text to start and the title indent to something
>appropriately negative.

I am using DSSSL for the moment. Is that a wise choice?

I have found %body-start-indent%, but nothing so far for titles.

>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
>
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
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Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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