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The simple answer is "yes", the index title is above the left column only. It is right-aligned in that column with your customization, but that looks sort of centered.

Column spans in DocBook XSL turn out to be harder than they should be, because the XSL-FO 1.0 standard says that fo:blocks that span must be direct children of the fo:flow element. But DocBook XSL uses a lot of nested fo:blocks, for good reasons, so unnesting them to make a title span is pretty hard.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net

I assume this means I can't change that behaviour right now.

Are there plans for the future?



Thanks,

Hinrich



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Von: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007 10:34
An: Hinrich Aue; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Betreff: Re: [docbook-apps] Index heading always centered



The simple answer is "yes", the index title is above the left column only.
It is right-aligned in that column with your customization, but that looks
sort of centered.



Column spans in DocBook XSL turn out to be harder than they should be,
because the XSL-FO 1.0 standard says that fo:blocks that span must be direct
children of the fo:flow element. But DocBook XSL uses a lot of nested
fo:blocks, for good reasons, so unnesting them to make a title span is
pretty hard.



Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net






Original Message -----

From: Hinrich <mailto:hinrich.aue@lci-software.com> Aue

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:17 AM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Index heading always centered



Hello there,



I was wondering why the title of the Index is always in the middle of the
page, even though it should be right aligned.

The thing is that the index seems to have two columns, and the title is in
the left one.

What I want is a title above both columns (I want a rule above the title).



Is the title title supposed to be above the left column?



Thanks,

Hinrich

Hinrich Aue wrote:
> I assume this means I can't change that behaviour right now.

As always, you can override original template <xsl:template
match="book/index|part/index">. For example:


<xsl:template match="book/index|part/index">
<xsl:variable name="id">
<xsl:call-template name="object.id"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:if test="$generate.index != 0">
<xsl:variable name="master-reference">
<xsl:call-template name="select.pagemaster">
<xsl:with-param name="pageclass">
<xsl:if test="$make.index.markup != 0">body</xsl:if>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<fo:page-sequence hyphenate="{$hyphenate}"
master-reference="{$master-reference}">
<xsl:attribute name="language">
<xsl:call-template name="l10n.language"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="format">
<xsl:call-template name="page.number.format">
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="initial-page-number">
<xsl:call-template name="initial.page.number">
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="force-page-count">
<xsl:call-template name="force.page.count">
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-character">
<xsl:call-template name="gentext">
<xsl:with-param name="key" select="'hyphenation-character'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-push-character-count">
<xsl:call-template name="gentext">
<xsl:with-param name="key"
select="'hyphenation-push-character-count'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-remain-character-count">
<xsl:call-template name="gentext">
<xsl:with-param name="key"
select="'hyphenation-remain-character-count'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="running.head.mode">
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="running.foot.mode">
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<xsl:call-template name="set.flow.properties">
<xsl:with-param name="element" select="local-name(.)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/>
</xsl:call-template>

<fo:block id="{$id}" span="all">
<xsl:call-template name="index.titlepage"/>
</fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:if test="count(indexentry) = 0 and count(indexdiv) = 0">

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$make.index.markup != 0">
<fo:block wrap-option='no-wrap'
white-space-collapse='false'
xsl:use-attribute-sets="monospace.verbatim.properties"
linefeed-treatment="preserve">
<xsl:call-template name="generate-index-markup">
<xsl:with-param name="scope"
select="(ancestor::book|/)[last()]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="indexentry|indexdiv/indexentry">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="generate-index">
<xsl:with-param name="scope"
select="(ancestor::book|/)[last()]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>



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