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Hello all,

The text body of my PDF document is indented.
The section titles are auto-numbered (auto-labeled).

Because there are several section levels, section labels vary w.r.t.
length (the character count) and font. This makes that the distance from
the left margin where the text part of a section title begins, is
variable also.

By tweaking the size of the body-indent, I can left-align the body text
to the beginning of the section title of one specific section level. But
this makes it almost by definition not aligned for another section level.

Is there a way to accomplish that the text part of section titles always
left-aligns with the body text, regardless the section level (i.e.
regardless font or character length of the label)?

Thanks in advance for any directions,

Erik Leunissen.

Yes, it is described in this section of my book:

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

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Erik Leunissen" <e.leunissen@hccnet.nl>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:44 PM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [docbook-apps] Left-aligning section titles with body text

> Hello all,
>
> The text body of my PDF document is indented.
> The section titles are auto-numbered (auto-labeled).
>
> Because there are several section levels, section labels vary w.r.t.
> length (the character count) and font. This makes that the distance from
> the left margin where the text part of a section title begins, is
> variable also.
>
> By tweaking the size of the body-indent, I can left-align the body text
> to the beginning of the section title of one specific section level. But
> this makes it almost by definition not aligned for another section level.
>
> Is there a way to accomplish that the text part of section titles always
> left-aligns with the body text, regardless the section level (i.e.
> regardless font or character length of the label)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any directions,
>
> Erik Leunissen.
>
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On 18/10/13 00:10, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Yes, it is described in this section of my book:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html
>

Well blimey!

I've got your book since several years now, and I missed this completely.

It must be that I never realized what "side-by-side" means.

Thanks,

I'm off, reading ...

Erik Leunissen.

If you can come up with a better name than "side-by-side", let me know. I
didn't know what to call it. 8^)

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Erik Leunissen" <e.leunissen@hccnet.nl>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 9:37 AM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Left-aligning section titles with body text

> On 18/10/13 00:10, Bob Stayton wrote:
>> Yes, it is described in this section of my book:
>>
>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html
>>
>
> Well blimey!
>
> I've got your book since several years now, and I missed this completely.
>
> It must be that I never realized what "side-by-side" means.
>
> Thanks,
>
> I'm off, reading ...
>
> Erik Leunissen.
>
>
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On 18/10/13 19:18, Bob Stayton wrote:
> If you can come up with a better name than "side-by-side", let me know.
> I didn't know what to call it. 8^)
>

Well, now that you challenge me, and I come to think of it closely:

1. I don't believe that there is anything wrong with "side by side".

2. I think my missing this has to do with failing to see the relation
with "alignment" or "left-alignment" or more in general "spatial
lay-out". In any case, the word "formatting" seems a too unspecific word
for me. (I understand "formatting" to include also colors and sizes of
fonts, borders, ... maybe I'm wrong).

Now you know what confused me. But how to express it best, that's
another matter. Maybe something like:

"Side by side aligned lay-out"

I'm letting you consider this and maybe come up with something better,
or just leave it as it is. Because after all, I'm not a native English
speaker (and stating that my native language is Dutch, though not
"double Dutch", isn't really adding to my status in this regard).

Best regards,

Erik Leunissen

On 18/10/13 00:10, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Yes, it is described in this section of my book:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideBySide.html
>

I've adjusted that template to account for bridgeheads rendered as a
certain section level. For anyone to use at own risk.

Regards,

Erik Leunissen
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<xsl:template name="section.heading">
<xsl:param name="level" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="marker" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="title"/>
<xsl:param name="marker.title"/>

<xsl:variable name="title.block">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="self::d:bridgehead">
<xsl:value-of select="$title"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<fo:list-block start-indent="0mm"
provisional-distance-between-starts="{$body.start.indent}"
provisional-label-separation="5mm">
<fo:list-item>
<fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()"
text-align="start">
<fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*"
mode="label.markup"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:list-item-label>
<fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()"
text-align="start">
<fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::*"
mode="title.markup"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:list-item-body>
</fo:list-item>
</fo:list-block>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.properties">
<xsl:if test="$marker != 0">
<fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">
<xsl:copy-of select="$marker.title"/>
</fo:marker>
</xsl:if>

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$level=1">
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level1.properties">
<xsl:copy-of select="$title.block"/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$level=2">
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level2.properties">
<xsl:copy-of select="$title.block"/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$level=5">
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="section.title.level5.properties">
<xsl:copy-of select="$title.block"/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>

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