Hi, Bernhard. It sounds like you should be using the formal title numbering behavior of one of the existing elements like example or figure. I hope I'm not misunderstanding, is your problem that you are using those elements already, and you need a custom formal element to hold *only* chemical structure figures?
I think that if you use the formal <figure> element to hold your chemical structure SVG diagrams, you should be able to use the default formal title numbering behavior of <figure> to automatically number those figures. You can do things like generate a list of figures and customize the words in the figure numbering (for example, "Chemical structure #: Steran Backbone"). I'm surprised that the <table> element in your example isn't numbered in the way you want though. Here are some pages from Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL guide: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FormalTitles.html#FormalNumbering http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TOCcontrol.html#TOCcomponents (if you wanted a list of figures at the start of a book or chapter) For example, I use figure elements like the one I pasted below. Good luck! Peter <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <topic version="5.1" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";> <info> <title>Test</title> </info> <figure> <title>Steran Backbone</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="your-image.png"/> </imageobject> <caption> <para>Steran</para> </caption> </mediaobject> </figure> </topic> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:46 AM Bernhard Kleine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > this is for sure not the first instance of numbering chemical structure > automatically during docbook transformation for print. But I can not find an > example to learn from. > > I have the following example (of about 100 structures in my book). I want > have these structures numbered with a bold number and automatically. I was > told by Thomas Schaitle, this can be done by xsl. In "docbook xsl", I do not > find an example. Chemical structures in my book are characterized by > property="chemical". What is needed is > > make a individual number for each structure > avoid numbering doubly if a structure is shown again > generate the xreflabel with this number that the xref references find a > target. > > BTW, if I generate an xreflabel by hand then these structures are correctly > numbered. However, to be able to change the sequential arrangement of > structures and still have the structures labeld sequentially, it is desirable > to number them automatically. Please give me an example how to proceed. I > have attached the svg file with the structure. > > Regards > > Bernhard > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <?xml-model href="http://docbook.org/xml/5.1/rng/docbook.rng"; > schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0";?> > <?xml-model href="http://docbook.org/xml/5.1/sch/docbook.sch"; > type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron";?> > <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; > xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.1"> > <title/> > <para>polycyclic steran (<xref linkend="chem.steran" > role="chem.ref"/>)</para> > <table xml:id="Ch06.F.steran" frame="all" rowsep="0" colsep="0" > xreflabel="Kap6.F:Steran"> > <title>Sterane Backbone</title> > <tgroup cols="1" align="center"> > <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="4cm" align="center"/> > <tbody> > <row> > <entry><emphasis role="chemname">Steran</emphasis></entry> > </row> > <row> > <entry><inlinemediaobject property="chemical" > xml:id="chem.steran"> > <imageobject> > <imagedata fileref="../bkchem/steran.svg" > width="3.8cm"/> > </imageobject> > </inlinemediaobject></entry> > </row> > <row> > <entry align="right" valign="top"><xref > linkend="chem.steran"/></entry> > </row> > </tbody> > </tgroup> > </table> > > </section> > > > -- > spitzhalde9 > D-79853 lenzkirch > [email protected] > www.b-kleine.com, www.urseetal.net > - > thunderbird mit enigmail > GPG schlüssel: D5257409 > fingerprint: > 08 B7 F8 70 22 7A FC C1 15 49 CA A6 C7 6F A0 2E D5 25 74 09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
