DSSSL to HTML questions

In general you switch between chunked and nochunked output by setting the variable nochunks to #t or #f. This can be achieved in your customization stylesheet or simply by adding

on the (open)jade command line.

The <emphasis> tag is rendered by the default HTML stylesheet as italic (<I>). If you want to change the appearance you have to do this in your customization layer. Jirka Kosek proposed the following solution recently on DocBook-Apps ML:

(element emphasis
(if (equal? (normalize "bold") (attribute-string (normalize "role")))
    ($bold-seq$)                                                     
    ($italic-seq$)))

This solution looks at the role attribute and uses the <B> HTML tag to render <emphasis> if this attribute is set to bold.

Rory Hunter

For ages I've wanted a bibliography to start on a seperate page, using print DSSSL. It turns out that what's required is to change

(element bibliography
...
     (make sequence
       (make paragraph
	...

to

(element bibliography
...
     (make display-group
       break-before: 'page
       (make paragraph
	...

Norm Walsh

The list of metadata elements that should be rendered on a titlepage is highly personal. If you make a customization stylesheet and add

To the appropriate:

(define (<<<element you want to use>>>-titlepage-recto-elements)
  (list (normalize "title")
	(normalize "subtitle")
	(normalize "graphic")
	(normalize "mediaobject")
	(normalize "corpauthor")
	(normalize "authorgroup")
	(normalize "author")
	(normalize "editor")
	(normalize "copyright")
	(normalize "legalnotice")))

list, then it'll be rendered.

Norm Walsh

You'll have to tweak the section heading definition in your customization layer:

(define ($section-title$)
  (let* ((sect (current-node))
	 (info (info-element))
	 (exp-children (if (node-list-empty? info)
			   (empty-node-list)
			   (expand-children (children info) 
					    (list (normalize "bookbiblio") 
						  (normalize "bibliomisc")
						  (normalize "biblioset")))))
	 (parent-titles (select-elements (children sect) (normalize "title")))
	 (info-titles   (select-elements exp-children (normalize "title")))
	 (titles        (if (node-list-empty? parent-titles)
			    info-titles
			    parent-titles))
	 (subtitles     (select-elements exp-children (normalize "subtitle")))
	 (renderas (inherited-attribute-string (normalize "renderas") sect))
	 ;; the apparent section level
	 (hlevel
	  ;; if not real section level, then get the apparent level
	  ;; from "renderas"
	  (if renderas
	      (section-level-by-gi #f (normalize renderas))
	      ;; else use the real level
	      (SECTLEVEL)))
	 (hs (HSIZE (- 4 hlevel))))
    (make sequence
      (make paragraph
	font-family-name: %title-font-family%
	font-weight:  (if (< hlevel 5) 'bold 'medium)
	font-posture: (if (< hlevel 5) 'upright 'italic)
	font-size: hs
	line-spacing: (* hs %line-spacing-factor%)
	space-before: (* hs %head-before-factor%)
	space-after: (if (node-list-empty? subtitles)
			 (* hs %head-after-factor%)
			 0pt)
	start-indent: (if (or (>= hlevel 3)
			      (member (gi) (list (normalize "refsynopsisdiv") 
						 (normalize "refsect1") 
						 (normalize "refsect2") 
						 (normalize "refsect3"))))
			  %body-start-indent%
			  0pt)
	first-line-start-indent: 0pt
	quadding: %section-title-quadding%
	keep-with-next?: #t
	heading-level: (if %generate-heading-level% (+ hlevel 1) 0)
	;; SimpleSects are never AUTO numbered...they aren't hierarchical
	(if (string=? (element-label (current-node)) "")
	    (empty-sosofo)
	    (literal (element-label (current-node)) 
		     (gentext-label-title-sep (gi sect))))
	(element-title-sosofo (current-node)))
      (with-mode section-title-mode
	(process-node-list subtitles))
      ($proc-section-info$ info))))