Headers and Footers

[bennyboer]

Headers and footers should be separate "Template" files. Templates are *.lsc files that can be applied multiple times.

For example a file for a footer with the current date at the left, the current page in the middle and the authors name at the end.

<table>
  <table-row>
    <table-cell><var name="CURRENT_DATE"/></table-cell>
    <table-cell><var name="CURRENT_PAGE"/></table-cell>
    <table-cell><var name="AUTHOR_NAME"/></table-cell>
  </table-row>
</table>

The headers and footers are configured within the stylesheet. The following example applies the above footer template to each second page:

page:number(1..*, skip=1) {
  footer: "templates/footer.lsc";
}

Technical information

Headers and footers are always laid out first when creating a new page. This is needed as the size of the header and footer may vary for each page. Only after headers and footers are properly typeset can the page layout proceed as usual.