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by Dan Stainhauser :: Rate this Message:

Hi Jeff

I gladly found your posting to produce a running header of refentries. But unfortunately, it is not working correctly for my customization layer, since I'm using double side printing. What I get is on even pages the correct refname, but on odd pages the name from the previous refentry starting on an odd page. And vice versa if the refentry is starting on an odd page.

It seems to me, that there are two variables, one for even and one for odd pages, and both of them have to be set.

I'm retrieving the marker in the running header in the following way:

<fo:retrieve-marker
retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"
retrieve-boundary="page-sequence" />

Do you have an idea how this could be fixed?

I'm using Docbook: 1.73 and FOP: 0.93

Thanks and best regards

Daniel

Jeff Powanda wrote:

Ah, finally figured this out. I customized the refnamediv template and
made sure it created markers for level 1 and level 2:

<xsl:when test="$section.level = 1">
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="refentry.title.properties">
<fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">
<xsl:value-of select="$reftitle"/>
</fo:marker>
<fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level1.properties">
<xsl:value-of select="$reftitle"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$section.level = 2">
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="refentry.title.properties">
<fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">
<xsl:value-of select="$reftitle"/>
</fo:marker>
<fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level2.properties">
<xsl:value-of select="$reftitle"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>

Now I've got running headers for refentry titles.

Regards,
Jeff Powanda

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Powanda
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:19 PM
To: 'David Cramer (Tech Pubs)'; Samuel Wright;
denis.bradford@verizon.net; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] refentry or section

Has anyone figured out how to include the title of the refentry in a
running header? For section headings, I retrieve the section.head.marker
using the following:

<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="section.head.marker"
retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"
retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"/>

However, no marker is retrieved for refentry pages, and on those pages
the header is blank.

Regards,
Jeff Powanda

-----Original Message-----
From: David Cramer (Tech Pubs) [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:57 AM
To: Samuel Wright; denis.bradford@verizon.net;
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] refentry or section

Not sure it justifies the extra markup, but in terms of what the xsls
do, one thing you get with a reference and refentries that you don't
with a chapter and sections is additional summary info (the refpurpose)
in the toc. You can see this in the toc for tdg under "I. DocBook
Element Reference" where the toc has the element name and the refpurpose
instead of just the section's title:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html

On the other hand, the <reference> has to be the child of a book (i.e.
it's like a <chapter>). I've found myself wanting to use a <reference>
as if it were a <section>.

David

>
> So to sum up here, I feel as though I _should_ use
> references, refsections and refentries for my api
> information, and chapters/sections/etc for my other content,
> _BUT_ I don't see that much advantage in doing so, and you
> also accrue some extra markup for no great reason.
>
> Any more thoughts?

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