You can put a footnote at the end of each article that would appear at the bottom of the last page. In XSL-FO, the fo:footnote element is typically used for floats that are to appear at the bottom of the page. You would want to customize the footnote a bit to avoid the footnote number.
Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: robert To: Bob Stayton ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 6:12 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] adding a footer only to last page Thanks Bob for your help. I'm wondering if there is other way do achive a similar result. I want to have an image and some text at the bottom of each page that ends an article. I though a footer would be an obvious solution, but maybe there is other way to put that content at the bottom of a page. My book is generated dynamically, so for example, I'm able to add that content to each article, if that would allow me to use some other mechanism and simplify the solution. Robert On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Robert, Ah, sorry, this is actually a bit more complicated than I remembered. The DocBook XSL stylesheets are not set up with page-masters for 'last', and so that all has to be set up before the $sequence='last' in footer.content will work. I'll see if I can dig up an example of a working version. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: robert To: Bob Stayton Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] adding a footer only to last page Hi Bob, I can't get this working and have no idea what I'm doing wrong. My customization layer contains the following: <xsl:param name="footer.rule" select="0"></xsl:param> <xsl:attribute-set name="footer.content.properties"> <xsl:attribute name="background-color">red</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> <xsl:template name="footer.content"> <xsl:param name="pageclass" select="''"/> <xsl:param name="sequence" select="''"/> <xsl:param name="position" select="''"/> <xsl:param name="gentext-key" select="''"/> <fo:block> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$double.sided = 0 and $position='left' and self::d:article and $sequence = 'last'"> www.foo.com </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <!-- nop --> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </fo:block> </xsl:template> When I apply this do a book with several articles, i.e.: <book xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0"> <info> <title>Media Access Proxy™</title> </info> <article xml:id="a1"> ... </article> <article xml:id="a2"> ... </article> </book> I would like to see (in a PDF file) the 'www.foo.com' text at the left bottom of the page on the red background twice (i.e. at the end of each article). But I see a box with the red background on all pages and the text never appears. Thanks for your help. Robert On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Robert, The general instructions for customizing headers and footers can be found here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintHeaders.html The footer.content template is a big xsl:choose statement that sets conditions for which pages have which output. In your case, each article generates a page-sequence, so that is the context when the template is called. The xsl:when statement might look something like this: <xsl:when test="self::d:article and ($sequence = 'last' or $sequence = 'blank')"> You would need the 'blank' condition if you are doing double-sided output that may generate a blank page as the last page at the end of an article. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: robert To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 3:21 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] adding a footer only to last page To simplify the problem. Let's only consider the case when there is a book with a number of articles, and the footer must only be added to the last page of each article. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:57 AM, robert <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I have two somehow similar problems. Both relate to printed output. 1. I have a book with a number of articles and want to have a footer only on the last page of each article and the last page of the whole book. 2. Similarly, I have a set of books, and want to have a footer only on the last page of each book. Have can I do it? Thanks, Robert
