Hi Lily,
I implemented bleed tabs that operate in a similar fashion using the side
regions in an FO page-master. There are a lot of details to make it work,
but it can be done. The advantage of using side regions is that the content
is static and doesn't need an anchor in the body flow on each page to work.
The side regions are named start for the left side in left-to-write
writing mode, and end for the right side in that mode. Here is an outline
of the solution:
1. Create custom page masters that add fo:region-start and fo:region-end
elements to each fo:simple-page-master:
fo:simple-page-master master-name=blank-odd
page-width={$page.width}
page-height={$page.height}
margin-top={$page.margin.top}
margin-bottom={$page.margin.bottom}
margin-left=0pt
margin-right={$page.margin.inner}
fo:region-body display-align=center
margin-left={$margin.left.outer}
margin-bottom={$body.margin.bottom}
margin-top={$body.margin.top}
xsl:if test=$fop.extensions = 0
xsl:attribute name=region-nameblank-body/xsl:attribute
/xsl:if
/fo:region-body
fo:region-before region-name=xsl-region-before-blank-odd
extent={$region.before.extent}
display-align=before/
fo:region-after region-name=xsl-region-after-blank-odd
extent={$region.after.extent}
display-align=after/
fo:region-start region-name=xsl-region-start-blank-odd
extent={$region.side.extent}/
fo:region-end region-name=xsl-region-end-blank-odd
extent=0pt/
/fo:simple-page-master
2. Customize the user.pagemasters template to call your new page masters.
3. Customize the template named running.head.mode from fo/pagesetup.xsl to
create several new fo:static-content elements. Use these for the start
side:
fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-start-first
xsl:call-template name=bleed.tab
xsl:with-param name=pageclass select=$pageclass/
xsl:with-param name=sequence select='first'/
xsl:with-param name=side select='start'/
xsl:with-param name=gentext-key select=$gentext-key/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:static-content
fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-start-odd
xsl:call-template name=bleed.tab
xsl:with-param name=pageclass select=$pageclass/
xsl:with-param name=sequence select='odd'/
xsl:with-param name=side select='start'/
xsl:with-param name=gentext-key select=$gentext-key/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:static-content
fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-start-even
xsl:call-template name=bleed.tab
xsl:with-param name=pageclass select=$pageclass/
xsl:with-param name=sequence select='even'/
xsl:with-param name=side select='start'/
xsl:with-param name=gentext-key select=$gentext-key/
/xsl:call-template
/fo:static-content
4. Create another set replacing start with end everywhere. These
static-content elements put content into the side regions.
5. Create a template named bleed.tab that accepts those params and uses
an xsl:choose to compute the content for each combination of pageclass,
sequence, side, and gentext-key (maybe only when it is chapter). Many
combinations won't have content, so only create xsl:when elements for those
combinations that do (sequence=odd and side=end for example). The
context for the call to this template is the element that creates a
page-sequence, so the context is chapter when doing a chapter element. You
can count preceding chapter elements to compute a position in the side
margin for each chapter so they march down the page.
6. The static content for each combination is an fo:block-container with
absolute positioning:
fo:block-container
absolute-position=absolute
width=0.5in
height=0.5in
top=1.15in !-- === compute this value --
fo:block
fo:external-graphic ...
You'll have to experiment with sizes and positioning to get it to work.
I didn't try this with FOP, so I hope it works for you.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Lily Galle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:49 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] icon for chapter number on the edge of page
Hi,
My docBook ist double-sided. I would like to set one small icon on the
outside of each page. In the icon is the chapter number. In the CHAPTER
ONE there is “1” in the icon. In the CHAPTER TWO, there is “2” in the
icon.
This icon should be POSITIONED differently. In the CHAPTER ONE it has a
distance of “3in” to the top of the page. In the CHAPTER TWO it has a
distance of
