Thanks Bob. Unfortunately, I can't change articles to chapters. We have a huge repository of help topics, each topic corresponds to an xml file, and each file starts with article. Articles are grouped into manuals in many different ways, for different outputs, ect.
I'm willing to try customizing my transformations. Is there a way to identify the templates that need to be modified? Thanks, Robert On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Hi Robert, > The DocBook XSL stylesheets don't have an option to turn on numbering for > articles within a part. Have you considered using chapters instead? Those > are autonumbered. > > It would be possible to number articles with a customization that copies > all the templates that handle chapter titles and change the element name to > article. But it would be quite a few because of details like tables of > contents and cross references. This would make a good feature request for > a future release. > > If you did change the elements to chapters and you don't want to see > "Chapter" in the output, you can change the generated text for chapters to > refer to articles or remove the word entirely. That would be easier than > getting numbering of articles to work. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [email protected] > > *From:* robert <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 7:46 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [docbook-apps] numbering parts and articles > > Hi, > > I need some help with part/article numbering. My book has the following > structure: > > <book> > <part> > <article/> > <article/> > </part> > <part> > <article/> > <article/> > </part> > </book> > > I'm able control the numbering of part elements, but I cannot do it for > article elements. I would like each article within a part element to > contain the number of the current part and the number of the current > article, separated by '.', i.e. > > <book> > <part> 1. title > <article/> 1.1 title > <article/> 1.2 title > </part> > <part> 2. title > <article/> 2.1 title > <article/> 2.2 title > </part> > </book> > > > Thanks for your help. > Robert >
