Weird TOC indentation in PDF document?

[floubi]

Hello,

The Oxygen Docbook indentation for the table of contents in PDF documents seems to be wrong:

chapter
sect1
sect2
sect2
sect1
sect2
sect2
chapter
sect1
...

So basically the chapters are indented and the sections are flat... I was expecting:
chapter
sect1
sect2
sect2
sect1
sect2
sect2
chapter
sect1
....

as explained in http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html

I have managed to configure other things such as font size of titles by making a customization layer etc. What could be the problem?

Stephanie

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Set the generate.toc parameter in your customization layer. For example:

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<xsl:param name="generate.toc">

    appendix title

    article  toc,title

    book      toc,title

    chapter  title

    part      title

    sect1    title

    sect2    title

    sect3    title

    sect4    title

</xsl:param>

Regards,
Sorin

[floubi]

Hi sorin, I have tried your suggestion but it doesn't seem to have made any difference to the indentation. Just to clarify, I am talking about the main TOC for the whole book.

According to Bob Stayton - http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Prin ... TocEntries :

"These templates are located in the fo/autotoc.xsl stylesheet file. They are not good candidates for customization because they are pretty complex. The complexity comes from the recursive nature of processing all the elements in the document in the toc mode. Each mode="toc" template generates the entry for its element, and then checks to see if the element has children that should appear in the TOC. If so, then it increments the indent by the amount of the parameter toc.indent.width and applies templates in toc mode to process the children."

Why is the indentation not working as described above?

Steph

[sorin_ristache]

Hi,

I have tried your suggestion but it doesn't seem to have made any difference to the indentation.

Create a simple book document using the template DocBook 4.4 Book from the list displayed by File -> New from Templates, add some sect2 and para elements and add the generate.toc parameter in a customization layer. Apply the customization layer and the indentation should be right in the PDF. If indentation is not right specify your platform, <oXygen/> version, JVM version and post a sample of your customization layer.

Just to clarify, I am talking about the main TOC for the whole book.

I talk about the same TOC. In the value of generate.toc I used the toc item for book elements:

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book      toc,title

Regards,
Sorin

[floubi]

Hi again,

OK, I have followed your insrructions, generated the PDF first without a customisation layer, using the out-of-the-box DocBook PDF transformation scenario. I get

I. First part
1. Chapter Title
Section1 Title
test sect2

So basically the first part is indented, everything else is flat.

I then added the following very simple customisation layer:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 

version="1.0">

    <xsl:import 

href="file:/C:/Program%20Files/Oxygen%206.2/frameworks/docbook/xsl/fo/docbook.

xsl"/>

    <xsl:param name="generate.toc">

        appendix title

        article  toc,title

        book      toc,title

        chapter  title

        part      title

        sect1    title

        sect2    title

        sect3    title

        sect4    title

    </xsl:param>

</xsl:stylesheet>

and got exactly the same thing.

With 2 parts I get:
I. First part
1. Chapter Title
Section1 Title
test sect2
2. Second part
1. Chapter Title
Section1 Title
test sect2

Which seems to mean that only the top level is ever indented.

I am trialing the latest version of Oxygen (version 6.2 build 2005091711). Platform is Windows XP, JVM version is 1.4.2_03.

Thanks
Steph

[floubi]

Sorry re-reading my message I just saw that the indentation doesn't display in the message!

I meant

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With 2 parts I get: 

           I. First part 

1. Chapter Title 

Section1 Title 

test sect2 

           2. Second part 

1. Chapter Title 

Section1 Title 

test sect2