Re: [docbook] problem with customizing header

[moving this over to the docbook-apps mailing list where stylesheet issues 
are discussed]

Hi Andreas,
Welcome to DocBook.  Since you are new, you would not have known that the 
docbook mailing list is for discussion of elements and schemas, and the 
docbook-apps list is for stylesheet and other application issues.  I would 
suggest you subscribe to both.

I publish a book on customizing DocBook XSL, and you can access it for free 
in HTML form at:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/

In particular, you want to look at how to create a stylesheet customization 
layer at:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer

That will explain that you don't need to edit the original stylesheet files 
to customize.

Regarding your specific questions:

- The running page headers are already as wide as the page, within the 
margins.  Can you provide more details of what you want?

- You don't need to include a <toc/> element, as a toc can be generated 
automatically.  See the stylesheet parameter named "generate.toc" in the 
index of my book.

- Regarding chapter titles, there is a section in my book on customizing 
them:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html#ChapterTitles

Hope this helps.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Peter" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:47 AM
Subject: [docbook] problem with customizing header


> Hello list,
>
> I am totally new to DocBook and have some questions about formatting
> several parameters.
> My questions are, I hope, really simple:
>
> - I try to customize the header. The header should be as wide as the page.
> - the toc is shown twice => I included <toc/> after the <set> element
> - I need to remove the word "Chapter"for every <chapter> element in the
> instance document
>
> Is it right, that I change everything concerning the docbook under
> /frameworks/docbook/xsl/params ?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Andreas
>
>


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