Hey,
I had to rewrite the footnote symbol handler for work this morning to
comply with the Chicago Manual of Style 14e, 12.51. I don't really
like the way the current stylesheets eventually go for symbols to
numbers, so I'm sharing in hope that it might help somebody else (FO
only):
<xsl:param name="footnote.number.symbols"
select="'*†‡§‖#'"/>
helper, anywhere:
<xsl:template name="dup">
<xsl:param name="input"/>
<xsl:param name="count" select="2"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($count) or not($input)"/>
<xsl:when test="$count = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="$input"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:if test="$count mod 2">
<xsl:value-of select="$input"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="dup">
<xsl:with-param name="input" select="concat($input, $input)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="count" select="floor($count div 2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
in fo/footnote.xsl:
<xsl:template match="footnote" mode="footnote.number">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(@label) != 0">
<xsl:value-of select="@label"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="ancestor::table or ancestor::informaltable">
<xsl:variable name="tfnum">
<xsl:number level="any" from="table|informaltable" format="1"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="tfsymnum"
select="string-length($table.footnote.number.symbols)"/>
<xsl:call-template name="dup">
<xsl:with-param name="input"
select="substring($table.footnote.number.symbols, $tfnum mod
$tfsymnum, 1)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="count" select="ceiling($tfnum div $tfsymnum)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="fnum">
<xsl:number level="any"
from="chapter|appendix|preface|article|refentry|bibliography"
count="footnote[not(@label)][not(ancestor::table)
and not(ancestor::informaltable)]|ulink[node()][@url !=
.][not(ancestor::
format="1"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="symnum"
select="string-length($footnote.number.symbols)"/>
<xsl:call-template name="dup">
<xsl:with-param name="input"
select="substring($footnote.number.symbols, $fnum mod $symnum, 1)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="count" select="ceiling($fnum div $symnum)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Comments encouraged.
Keith