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Custom footers with chapter and section numbers (using FOP)

  • 1.  Custom footers with chapter and section numbers (using FOP)

    Posted 11-17-2007 21:31
    Hello docbook-apps!

    I'm trying to customise the headers and footers
    of a docbook book. I am using Apache FOP 0.93. I
    have the footer looking almost perfect thanks
    especially to this very helpful page:

    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintHeaders.html

    But there is one thing I just can't figure out how to
    do! In my style sheet I have this code to insert the
    section name into the footer:


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

    But I would also like to include the chapter and section
    numbers so that instead of "section name" it contains
    "N.M. section name" where N is the chapter number and
    M is the section number. I am using <chapter> and <sect1>
    if that makes any difference.

    Any code to do this or even pointers to the right places
    in a manual (or example books that do this) would be very
    much appreciated!

    Thanks,

    Doug