Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Page number in ToC

[Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>]

Great, this look much nicer. But, I am stille wondering, if we shouldn't 
let the use of this be optional, and still keeo Norm's old style at least 
for now. I still don't get at page number for each component (chapter, 
appendix etc.)

Regards

Jens


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Bob Stayton wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 02:14:40AM +0200, Nicolas Nieswandt wrote:
> > Sorry, my last message was a bit confused, so i'll summarize it.
> > 
> > The Problem was to get a TOC with right aligned page numbers in a PDF
> > file rendered with FOP. Rendering my document wth FOP 0.20.3 using the
> > XSL-StyleSheets 1.51.0 leads nearly to the predicted result, but only if
> > fop.extensions are diabled in the customization layer.
> > 
> > This was confirmed with FOP 0.20.4, 0.20.3 and docbook-xsl 1.52.2,
> > 1.52.1, 1.51.0. An outstanding problem was that the numbers weren't
> > smoothly aligned.
> > 
> > I investigated the Stylesheets and I found the file fo/autotoc.xsl.
> > In the template
> >   <xsl:template name="toc.line">
> > are only some spaces inserted between the TOC title and the page number,
> > if fop.extensions are disabled.
> > 
> > I verified that FOP has the fo:leader element implemented and removed
> > the xsl:text elements and copied the fo:leader element, that is used
> > with fop.extensions=0.
> > 
> > If you add the attribute leader-pattern-width="5pt", you also get the
> > page numbers smooth aligned on the right.
> > 
> > So if this doesn't work only for me and there are no other problems, the
> > instructions for using fop.extensions (in fo/autotoc.xsl -
> > template:"toc.line") could be changed or pherhaps completly removed.
> 
> This does indeed work, so I checked it into CVS.  The page
> numbers still don't align right in FOP (they align left), but at
> least they are lined up in FOP now!
> 
> Nice detective work.
> 
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Regards,

Jens

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