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
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----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Larin
To: [email protected]
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:
a.. the header contained the title of the last section instead of Index
b.. 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:
a.. The numbering of the Index pages restarts at 1 (shown also as page 1 in
the Table of Contents)
b.. 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
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Kaj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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