Re: [Firebird-docs] Will it break any hearts if....

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Helen,

> Sorry if you've seen this twice.  I backed my system date by 3 years in order to get my HP printer working again after a power cut...and forgot to put it forward again.

I just found the original at the bottom of a huge pit, covered with 2000 other messages :-)

> ...I break up the installation notes for Firebird 2.0.x and 2.1.x into more chapters?

No problem with me. You know what's best for the Release Notes.

> We don't have enough contrast between Level 1 and Level 2 section titles to make a decent distinction between Windows and The Rest.  I want to take advantage of the comparative HUGENESS of the chapter title, as well as the ability to begin each on a new page.

You can change chapter and section titles makeup in /manual/src/docs/xsl/fo/param-rlsnotes.xsl

Currently, chapter titles as defined in param-rlsnotes.xsl are 3 x normal text size, section 1 titles 1.45 x, section 2 titles 1.27 x, etc.

In param.xsl (our 'custom defaults'), that's 3 x, 1.837 x, 1.5 x, etc.

(If you delete or comment out lines in param-rlsnotes.xsl, the settings in param.xsl apply)

You can also change color, font style and weight, background color, etc.

Starting sections on a new page is trickier. It's easy enough to add a break-before attribute to the section title properties, but the (invisible) start of the section itself may still be at the previous page. If that is the case, all links and bookmarks will point to the whitespace on the previous page instead of to the title.

BTW, did you know that you can also use a <part> level between <book> and <chapter>? I've never tried it myself so I don't know how it works out in the HTML and PDF. It may require a lot of stylesheet tweaking before it looks any good.


Good luck,
Paul Vinkenoog