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[docbook-apps] custom header table / current sect1 titles in header
- From: Thomas dot Gier at imperia dot net
- To: DocBook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:48:21 +0200
- Subject: [docbook-apps] custom header table / current sect1 titles in header
Hi,
I have some problems for which I can't find a solution. This amazes me
because my intentions aren't that extraordinary, I think. Maybe a solution
is obvious and I'm just missing it or these issues need a advanced
knowledge which I definitely have not. I'm fairly at a loss ...
I'm using docbook-xsl version 1.61.3 for FO print output ...
1.
I need customizing for header.table. The header of every odd or first page
should look like this:
------------------------------------------------
| |
| Chapter title (bold)|
| Sect1 title (normal)|
------------------------------------------------
The header of every even page should look like this:
------------------------------------------------
| |
| |
|Sect1 title (normal) |
------------------------------------------------
I added another variable (containing a second table) to my customized
version of header.table. The new table finds it's way into the document
but I don't know how to 'address' these new table cells and put the sect1
header (assumed this can be done at all -> 2.) into the leftmost (resp.
rightmost) cell. It already contains the chapter title as the original
table does but this is to be exchanged by the sect1 title. Which brings me
to my second problem:
2.
Is there a way of putting the current sect1 title into the page headers at
all? I can easily put the title of the first section appearing on a page
into the page header using titleabbrev.markup, but I can't do this with
the current sect1 title. All I get is the title of the first section
heading appearing on the current page - this may be sect4 which should not
appear in the page header.
Both issues together with some minor ones (which I hopefully can handle
with the help of the documentation) get in the way of finishing my
customization layer and thus prevent me from switching back to normal
operational mode which is writing technical documentation. I'm really
eager to start working with the new tool chain :-) ...
As you can see by the character of my problems I'm a newbie to the whole
thing and I hope anybody understands what I'm talking about at all because
my English is rather poor ... my German is much better :-) ...
Thanks for reading
Thomas Gier
Technical Writer
Germany
Thomas Gier
Technical Writer
Germany
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