Oh, right, the page numbering starts over because
the context node is article when the page.sequence template is called by
name. Instead, that template can be called using appy-templates
in a mode:
<xsl:apply-templates select="index"
mode="page.sequence">
<xsl:with-param
name="content">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="index"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:apply-templates>
(use d:index if you are using the namespaced
stylesheets).
That sets the context node to be the index element,
so now the page-sequence is handled as an index, and the page numbering does not
restart.
The headers and footers aren't entirely
empty. The page number appears in the footer, as you noted. Also,
the "Index" title will appear in the header starting on the second page of the
index page sequence. The default in DocBook is no header on the first page
of a page-sequence. If you want something else, a bit of
customizing of the header.content template will make it do what you
want.
Regarding a parameter for index column count, that
actually already exists as the column.count.index parameter:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/column.count.index.html
But it only applies when an index has its own
page-sequence using the index page-master, not when an index is handled inside
the article's body page-sequence. I think what you want is a parameter to
set an article index in its own page-sequence so the other parameter can
apply.
Regarding modifying fo/component.xsl, that
generally is not a good practice, as you found when you updated. Rather,
create a customization layer that imports the stock DocBook stylesheet, and add
any customized templates there to override the stock templates. Then you
don't lose your customizations when you update.
See:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
Hope this helps.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Diane Larin
To:
Cc: Diane Larin
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:31
PM
Subject: Re: Re: [docbook-apps] Columns
in index of article, with docbook-xsl-ns
Hi,
I had the same problem as Rasmus and up to now I was
using another suggestion Bob gave me on November 1, 2006 (Subject: generating
an index with 2 columns) which also consisted of a modification of the
fo/component.xsl plus the setting of the column.count.body stylesheet
parameter to 2. This was doing the job but with some inconvenience:
the header contained the title of the last section instead of Index
more important, twice I updated the stylesheets and I forgot to re-apply
the modification to fo/component.xsl and I ended with a complete document in
2 columns :-(
Therefore, I was very interested with the new
proposed solution. I tried it and found the following problems:
The numbering of the Index pages restarts at 1 (shown also as page 1 in
the Table of Contents)
The header and footer of the Index pages are empty
Whenever
it is possible I use book but, for some of my documents, switching to a book
is not really a solution because they contain several sections that cannot be
organized into chapters and section is not a child of book.
Ideally, it
would be possible to use a parameter to specify the number of columns in the
Index pages.
Diane
Bob Stayton wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family:
-moz-fixed">Hi,
Multiple columns are specified in the page-master, so
your index content must be removed from the main article page-sequence that
uses the "body" page-master and put into a new page-sequence using the
"index" page-master. You would have to customize the template with
match="article" from fo/component.xsl.
Near the end of the template,
change:
...
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
to:
...
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*[not(self::index)]"/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<xsl:call-template
name="page.sequence">
<xsl:with-param
name="master-reference">index</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="content">
<xsl:apply-templates select="index"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
Bob
Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
-----
Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Kaj" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps]
Columns in index of article, with docbook-xsl-ns
Hi!
I'm trying, without success, to get a
multi-column index in a DocBook
article.
After a lot of
searching I found that the index page-master isn't used
for an
article. If I switch to a book it works, but then I get loads of
extra page breaks and empty pages that I don't want (and what I write
feels more like an article than a book).
I do have the index
on a page for itself. Can I specify a page-master
from my
titlepages specification? Or can I specify a number of column
in
some way that don't require the use of a page-master?
I'm
using DocBook 5.0, docbook-xsl-ns-1.73.2, and fop 0.94.
--
Rasmus Kaj <>
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