Re: DOCBOOK: xref text

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Camille Begnis <camille@mandrakesoft.com> was heard to say:
| Is there a parameter to change? I couldn't find it.

Yes, although I'm not sure it's easy to change in the current stylesheet
configuration. I'll see if I can make it easier in the next release.
If you look in common/dbl1*.dsl, you'll find definitions like this:

(define (en-xref-strings)
  (list (list (normalize "appendix")    (if %chapter-autolabel%
					    "&Appendix; %n"
					    "the &appendix; called %t"))
  ...

To generate the xref text for an element, the stylesheets look up the
appropriate element in this list, take the resulting string and
replace %n with the element number, %t with the element title, and
%p with the element page number. So if you change the text for
chapter to

  "&Chapter; %n, %t"

You'll get the chapter and title.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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