Re: [Dblatex-users] Using olink to reference a chapter

[ben.guillon <ben...@gm...>]

Hi,

yes, there's a bug around olinking support (strange you're the first one  
to see it) that i'll try to fix cleanly.

As a workaround you can use the "special" escaping characters in the  
target.db file, like in the following example:

<!DOCTYPE div [
<!ENTITY t1 "&#x370;t">
<!ENTITY t2 "&#x371;t">
]>
<div element="book" href="#MailAdminGuide" number=""
targetptr="MailAdminGuide"><ttl>Admin Guide</ttl><xreftext>Admin
Guide</xreftext><div element="chapter" href="#user_accounts" number="1"
targetptr="user_accounts"><ttl>Administering User
Accounts</ttl><xreftext>Chapter 1, &t2;\emph{&t1;Administering User  
Accounts&t2;}&t1;</xreftext></div></div>

The order is meaningfull: start the escape mode with &t2; and stop it with  
&t1;. Hope it helps,

Regards,
BG


On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:54:23 +0100, Richard Walker  
<wal...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm having problems using olink to reference a chapter.
>
> The target.db file is generated (as per the dblatex manual) using the  
> HTML
> version of the DocBook styles.
> The relevant bit of my target.db file is:
>
> <div element="chapter" href="#chapter-passwords" number="2"
> targetptr="chapter-passwords">
> <ttl>Passwords</ttl><xreftext>Chapter 2, <i>Passwords</i></xreftext>
>
> (So the the chapter name is surrounded by "i" tags.)
>
> When I reference this with an olink and process with dblatex,
> I only see the text "Chapter 2, ".  So the name of the chapter is lost,
> apparently because of the <i> element around it.
>
> I can make the chapter name appear in the PDF by overriding the
> markup used for target.db, thus:
>
>   <xsl:template match="chapter|appendix" mode="insert.title.markup">
>     <xsl:param name="purpose"/>
>     <xsl:param name="xrefstyle"/>
>     <xsl:param name="title"/>
>
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="$purpose = 'xref'">
>   <!-- begin of i element was here -->
>         <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>   <!-- end of i element was here -->
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> But actually I _would_ like the chapter name to appear
> in italics, to match what I see when I process the document
> to produce HTML output.
>
> Inserting text nodes for "\emph{" and "}" in the above template doesn't  
> work,
> as the generated PDF then contains those strings literally.
> So I can't see how to make this work.