hi Bob,
Thanks -- it's working!
I used the gentext for chapter with the 'title-numbered' context, like this
snippet:
<l:context name="title-numbered">
<l:template name="chapter" text="%t" />
</l:context>
thanks,
--Tim
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
> **
> The titlepage system eventually calls the template named 'component.title'
> in html/component.xsl for all component-level elements like chapter,
> appendix, preface, etc. That template applies templates in
> mode="object.title.markup", which uses a gentext template to generate the
> appropriate label. So modifying the gentext for 'chapter' in
> context="title-numbered" should work. The TOC and xrefs don't use that
> mode, so they should be unaffected.
>
> Or you could modify the 'component.title' template to use
> mode="title.markup" when the context is chapter.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> [email protected]
>
> *From:* Tim Arnold <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:35 PM
> *To:* Bob Stayton <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* DocBook Apps <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [docbook-apps] manipulating chapter title page in html
>
> hi Bob,
> Thanks for the fast response. I do understand (I think) how to change the
> gentext but I only want to change this particular instance of the text on
> the chapter title page, not the xrefs or any other place.
> (this is to match a spec, not my own idea).
>
> Can that be done? I haven't figured out where that template is.
> thanks!
> --Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>> I'm not clear if you want to eliminate numbering of chapters, or just
>> this numbering label in chapter titlepage output (leaving the number in the
>> TOC and xrefs). To eliminate chapter numbering entirely, you can set the
>> stylesheet parameter 'chapter.autolabel' to zero.
>>
>> If it is just the chapter titlepage, then it can be done by customizing
>> the gentext rather than a template. That's because "Chapter" is generated
>> text that is different for each locale. Something like this will generate
>> just the title:
>>
>> <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/>
>> <l:i18n
>> xmlns:l="http://docbook.**sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0<http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0>
>> **">
>> <l:l10n language="en">
>> <l:context name="title-numbered">
>> <l:template name="chapter" text="%t"/>
>> </l:context>
>> </l:l10n>
>> </l:i18n>
>>
>> More details are provided here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.sagehill.net/**docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html<http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html>
>>
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> From: Tim Arnold
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:29 PM
>> To: DocBook Apps
>> Subject: [docbook-apps] manipulating chapter title page in html
>>
>>
>>
>> I just can't seem to find the right place to manage this. I want to
>> remove the "Chapter 13." part of the title of this pattern: "Chapter 13.
>> My Chapter Title", which is generated in the main entrypoint (toc file).
>>
>>
>> I traced through user.head.content which stops just before the title, and
>> found make.toc which seems to start just after the title.
>> My guess is that is comes from chapter.titlepage.recto.auto.**mode which
>> calls chapter.titlepage.recto.mode but then I get lost.
>>
>>
>> thanks for any pointer to the correct template!
>> --Tim Arnold
>>
>
>
