Hello,
I've just switched from
COST to Jade using it as a tool to generate RTF images of a bilingual dictionary
that we are working on using SGML. The RTF documents are used for proof-reading,
both on-screen and as print-outs. One difficulty that I have encountered is how
to implement dictionary-style running heads, i.e. headers featuring the first
and last headword on a page. Somebody on dssslist once mentioned that flow
object reference values do the trick but, since I'm quite new to DSSSL, I have
no idea how they work. The DSSSL specification didn't help me much on this
issue, I'm afraid. Previously, in COST, the definition of the header was
inserted as a chunk of RTF code at the beginning of the document. Each headword
element generated an extra hidden copy which the STYLEREF fields used to display
the corresponding running head.
Could anyone on dssslist be willing
to help me on this?
The data base looks roughly like
this:
<dictionary>
<entry>
<headword>cat</headword>
...
</entry>
<entry>
<headword>dog</headword>
...
</entry>
...
</dictionary>
Regards,
Mariusz
Idzikowski