Hi Hussein, I can wait three months or more for the next release. :) I appreciate very much all your helpful responses. I have modified our XSLT stylesheets to the extent that I just have a little work to do to modify the headers/footers in the resulting docx files and I can probably write a macro to make our bullets match our standards. There is one more thing that I don't think I mentioned. Similar to bullets being a different font and color than the text, our standard calls for the numbers in steps being bold and blue, with no period following. It would look something like this:
1 Text of a <cmd> sentence. a Text of a substep. I don't know if you have any plans for future releases to parameterize this type of formatting or not. Whether you do or not, I can fix in the docx file before creating a pdf from the docx file. Ditac/XML Utility has allowed me to get everything else formatting fairly close to our standards, so I'm a happy camper so far. I'm hoping to be able to now "sell" the dita concept to the powers that be in my organization. Thank you! Julie >>> Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> 1/14/2012 12:45 AM >>> On 01/14/2012 01:31 AM, Julie McHam wrote: > I can't seem to get the right combination of parameters set up in XSL > Utility > to set up my headers the way I want them in my resulting docx file. > On odd pages, I want a two line header, right-justified, with the > document title > on the first line and the chapter title on the second line. > On even pages, I want the same thing, except left-justified. > Any advise? I don't think it is possible to achieve this without customizing the XSLT stylesheet. However, it's probably not difficult to enhance ditac (i.e. http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__header-left) to allow this. Therefore we'll probably implement this feature in next release[*]. > Also, are there any plans for a parameter that will leave headers on the > first pages of chapters blank? Typically, the first page wouldn't have a > header. For now, the first page of a chapter has no %chapter-title%, which is partly what you want. However, you are right: this is indeed an omission. We'll implement this feature for headers and/or for footers in next release[*]. --- [*] Please don't hold your breath. Next release of ditac/XSL Utility is not expected before at least 3 months.
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