Basic Style Sheet Format

The basic style sheet format first defines autonumbers. Then, for each element (Path) the style sheet defines its feature set. For information see, "Understanding Dtinfo Style Sheets" and "Creating a Style Sheet" in CDE: Information Manager Author's and Programmer's Guide.

You can also find an ASCII file of the dtinfoStyle.dtd in /usr/local/dt/infolib/%L/SGML/dtinfoStyle.dtd.

AutoNumber

To use system-generated number tokens in element formatting, first create an AutoNumber specification for each token stream. (Note that these tokens can only be used with the Prefix, Suffix, Header and Footer features.)

A simple example is:

&<AutoNumber


        id=chapnum


        reset="Book Part"


        counter=chapter>

A more complex example is:

&<AutoNumber


        id=fignum


        type=UCroman


        initial="I"


        delta=l


        counter="FIG TABLE"


        reset=chap>
&<path>NUMITEM&</>


        &<margin top=4pt bottom=4pt>


        &<prefix>&<auto id=NumList>&</prefix>

where:

type

The kind of counter values:Arabic, UCalpha, LCalpha, UCroman, LCroman. The default value is Arabic.

id

The unique name of this token. You can refer to this name, for example, in a Prefix. Required.

initial

The initial value for this token, which must be consistent with the Type. The default is 1.

delta

The value by which the system increments or decrements the token. The default is to increment by 1.

counter

The element(s) that cause this token to use the Delta to change values. Required.

reset

The element(s) that cause this token to reset to its initial value. Required.