Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Adding Horizontal Rules to Chapter/Part/Section Titles in PDF Output.

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:32:42AM +1100, Janeene Webb wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:16:30PM +1100, Janeene Webb wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > For Chapter Titles, Section Titles, and Part Titles I need to be able to 
> > > add a 
> > > horizontal rule across the page either above the title, below, or both. 
> >
> > You can do this without modifying templates because
> > there is an attribute-set for section titles that
> > you can customize.  For example, a rule below would be
> > done with the following in a customization layer:
> >
> > <xsl:attribute-set name="section.title.properties">
> >  <xsl:attribute name="border-bottom-style">solid</xsl:attribute>
> > </xsl:attribute-set>
> >
> > See this doc for more info on using such attribute-sets:
> >
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SectionTitlePages.html
> 
> I've been using this reference heavily for the past week or so. However, it 
> does talk about needing to use titlepage tmeplates if you wanted to customise 
> Chapter or Part headings - and testing here showed that the section level 
> template you've referred to above does not affect the Chapter titles or Part 
> Titles.

Right.  You'll still need the titlepage.templates.xml
for chapters and parts.
 
> However, the attribute name above was the main piece of information that I 
> couldn't find anywhere, thanks!
> 
> >
> > You'll also need an XSL-FO reference to know what all
> > the possible properties are.
> 
> *nods* - Do you have any recommendations? Is there anything online? This is 
> the bits that I'm finding *really* difficult to find.

There is always the XSL-FO spec itself:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/

Not always easy to use, but it is authoritative!

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