Hi Jason, No, there is nothing you can put in the text attribute value that will generate a new line that shows up in your displayed output. Inserting a 
 will insert a new line in the output file, but in neither HTML nor XSL-FO is such a line break character formatted as a line break. Instead, it is treated as just a bit of white space to be collapsed into a single space when lines are laid out in the display.
If you want to do this for XSL-FO output, my book has a section that describes a stylesheet customization to get the label (DocBook's term for the chapter number part) on a separate line from the title. You can view it online for free at: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html#ChapterTitles Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Zech To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:50 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] add newline to generated text? Hi all, I am trying to customize the chapter title output. I'm going from DB5 to single-file HTML (and later to epub) using the ns version of 1.76. I've got a customization working on the generated text of the chapter title, but I'd like to generate a newline between the chapter number and the chapter title. Here is the customization I have. <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/> <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0";> <l:l10n language="en"> <l:context name="title-numbered"> <l:template name="chapter" text="%n %t"/> </l:context> </l:l10n> </l:i18n> I need something between %n and %t but I'm beginning to think I can't use any of kind of newline here. Is it possible? Thanks in advance. Jz Jason Zech | Project Manager, Digital Workflow | New Product Development [ph] 773-281-1818 x212 [fax] 773-281-4129 | z...@loyolapress.com LoyolaPress. | A Jesuit Ministry 3441 N. Ashland Ave. | Chicago, IL 60657 | www.loyolapress.com Join our online community of advisors: www.SpiritedTalk.org
