[docbook-apps] Re: customizing content.header to make static text flow

[Guy Worthington <guyw at multiline dot com dot au>]

XSL:FO is far beyond comprehension, so please
dumb down your language as you would for any
other cut and paste baby.

I'm setting up a two sided book on 6in by 9in
paper with a narrow text area (26pc by 42pc).
Just for background information my page layout
is attached below:

8<------------------------------------------8<
<!-- specifies the finished page size -->
<xsl:param name="page.height">9in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.width">6in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.inner">0.5in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.outer">1in</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="page.margin.top">0.5in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="region.before.extent">1pc</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="body.margin.top">3pc</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="region.after.extent">1pc</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.bottom">0.5in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="body.margin.bottom">3pc</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="double-sided">1</xsl:param>
8<------------------------------------------8<

I'm using adobe goudy (go______.pfb) as the
header font with font-size/line-height of 10/12pt.
This isn't a condensed font (infact with a text
width of 26pc I expect 70 characters per line).
Now here's the rub: one of my section headings is
61 characters wide so I want the full line width
to typeset my header.

More specifically:

On an even page I'd like the chapter title to be
right aligned from the right and flowing from
right to left along the full header width.
I'd also like the page number at the leftmost
extremity of the header.

On an odd page I'd like the section number, then
a gap of 1pc, followed by the section title.  This
static text to be left aligned from the left and
flowing from left to right for the full text width.
I'd like the page number at the right most extremity
of the header.

Before being dismissed as a time wasting
good-for-nothing,  I would like to add they I've
used my one tool (google) to find a solution .

Google found an almost solution -- Example 11.11
at the following URL:

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

This customization constrains the text to left,
center and right compartments, whereas I'd like the
text to flow along the full header width.

My workflow uses saxon 6.51 for a transformer, and
fop-0.20.5

Thankyou for reading.


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