Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Treatment of links in print

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:49:23PM -0400, Kevin Dunn wrote:
> 
> 
> >to give
> >I would like to render
> ><para>
> >For an example of this procedure, refer to
> ><link linkend="foo">Foo</link>
> ></para>
> >
> >As
> >
> >"For an example of this procedure, refer to Foo (p. 29)"
> >
> >Where 29 is the page. I'd also be satisfied with
> >
> >"1.2.3 Foo"  where 1.2.3 is the subsection.
> >
> 
> You could use, for example
> <section id="foosection">
> ...
> <para id="foopara">This is the part that talks about foo.</para>
> ...
> </section>
> ...
> <para>
> For an example of this procedure, refer to
> <link linkend="foopara">Foo</link>(<xref linkend="foosection">).
> </para>
> 
> Unlike link, xref generates its own text, depending on its target. 
> This markup should produce something like:
> 
> For an example of this procedure, refer to Foo (Section 1.2.7).
> 
> I don't know how to do page numbers. Gotta be possible, since the TOC 
> does it.

If this is being processed with the XSL stylesheets,
try setting the stylesheet parameter
'insert.xref.page.number' to 1 in a customization
layer.  It's supposed to do that, but I've not
tried it with the current versions of the FO processors.

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