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customizing section titles

  • 1.  customizing section titles

    Posted 05-09-2011 12:59
    Hello,

    I'd like to customize the section title formatting for HTML and PDF. I
    think I have found a good solution for HTML, where I customize the
    'section.heading' template to generate the desired content. However,
    trying to do the same with the FO stylesheets doesn't work:

    I use a "titleabbrev" element for formal section names, and would like
    the title line to look like this:

    1.2.3 The section title [section.name]

    (with the [...] content coming from the titleabbrev). However, while the
    HTML stylesheet passes the $section variable down to the
    'section.heading' template, the FO stylesheet does not, so I can't
    access the 'titleabbrev' content there (or any other context info, for
    that matter.)

    Any ideas how I could approach this ? Or is there an entirely different
    approach ? (I figure there must be other authors who have written formal
    specifications in DocBook where such section headings are common.)

    Thanks,
    Stefan

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