Douglas W Philips wrote: > This is probably more of a question than a change request. > We're looking for additional control over the appearance of the text > in the page headers and footers. > Specifically, we would like to have the center footer read "... > CONFIDENTIAL..." and have that text be larger and in RED when it > appears. I've tried the obvious: > -p footer-center '<fo:block color="red"...>... CONFIDENTIAL > ...</fo:block>' but of course that doesn't work. > Question: If we were to customize our installation to handle this, > would it be worth feeding that customization back to XMLmind? >
No, because there is a clean, generic, way to implement this kind of customization. See below. > > P.S. I have played a little bit with the > ditac_1_2_1/xsl/fo/pagination.xsl file and that seems to be where the > customization would go, but I have just started looking into how we > would do this. > Please do not change anything in the stock XSL files. Instead follow what described here: XMLmind DITA Converter Manual, Part II. Customizing the output of XMLmind DITA Converter, Chapter 1. Simple customization, Customizing the look of the PDF files generated by ditac -- http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual-6.html#customAttributeSet Your custom_fo.xsl must redefine attribute-set "tabular-header" and/or named template "tabularHeader". This is pretty easy to do. However, if you have problems doing that, we'll help you. Excerpts of ditac_1_2_1/xsl/fo/pagination.xsl: --- <!-- tabularHeader ================================================ --> <xsl:attribute-set name="tabular-header"> <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="font-family">sans-serif</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="font-size">70%</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="color">#404040</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="border-color">#404040</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="border-width">0.25pt</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> <xsl:template name="tabularHeader"> <xsl:param name="left" select="()"/> <xsl:param name="center" select="()"/> <xsl:param name="right" select="()"/> <xsl:param name="isFooter" select="false()"/> <xsl:variable name="verticalAlign" select="if ($isFooter) then 'before' else 'after'"/> <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="tabular-header"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$isFooter and $footer-separator = 'yes'"> <xsl:attribute name="border-top-style">solid</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="padding-top">0.125em</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="not($isFooter) and $header-separator = 'yes'"> <xsl:attribute name="padding-bottom">0.125em</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="border-bottom-style">solid</xsl:attribute> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"> <fo:table-column column-number="1" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="proportional-column-width(6)"/> <fo:table-column column-number="3" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell start-indent="0" text-align="left" display-align="{$verticalAlign}"> <fo:block> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="exists($left)"> <xsl:copy-of select="$left"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell start-indent="0" text-align="center" display-align="{$verticalAlign}"> <fo:block> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="exists($center)"> <xsl:copy-of select="$center"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell start-indent="0" text-align="right" display-align="{$verticalAlign}"> <fo:block> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="exists($right)"> <xsl:copy-of select="$right"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> </fo:table-body> </fo:table> </fo:block> </xsl:template> --- --> In next release, we'll add additional attribute-sets and also additional properties (needed to adjust the width of each column) allowing to extensively customize the look of the tabular header/footer. In the vast majority of cases, redefining one or more these additional attribute-sets/properties should suffice. Already having these additional attribute-sets/properties would have spared you the effort of redefining named template "tabularHeader". -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
