Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: 'additional' HTML

[ed nixon <ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org>]

Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> * Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> [030214 09:30]:
> > "a navigation banner at a fixed position in the browser"
> > means you need to use an HTML Frameset. And a list of
> > sections would generally mean a table of contents, right?
<snip/>
> See e.g. http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html
> (they call it 'pinned-down menu'). This is done using HTML code
> like the one I posted earlier today and the CSS code you can see
> at the above URL. This will generate what I called 'a navigation
> banner at a fixe position'. This is of course a kind of TOC but has 
> nothing to do with a frameset.
A table of contents is default output by the xsl stylesheets.

You can start by experimenting with creating a display: fixed; rule in 
your CSS that targets the div.toc block; in theory, you can position the 
table of contents where you please within the viewport. I've only ever 
had success with this technique on Mozilla and Netscape 7, however; you 
sound like you might know that already. In other browsers, at best, it 
will be treated as absolute(ly) positioned and scroll with the page 
content.

If that first cut doesn't do what you want, you might try fiddling with 
the display properties of the definition list elements in which the TOC 
is embedded by the xsl stylesheets.

If that doesn't work for you, I suspect you may be in for some major 
customizing and I'm not competent to advise.

Regards.               ...edN