I'm still working on the Norwegian version of the +Free Culture book by Lawrence +Lessig, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout. +One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the +original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes +chapter. Based on the +feedback from the Debian +maintainer and the dblatex developer, I came up with this recipe I +would like to share with you. The proposal was to create a new LaTeX +class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always +practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make +file variable. So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL +parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in +the generated LaTeX File.
+ +First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes, +and add this text there:
+ ++<?latex \theendnotes ?> ++ +
Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the +code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the +generated LaTeX document, with content like this:
+ +
+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'>
+ <xsl:param name="latex.begindocument">
+ <xsl:text>
+\usepackage{endnotes}
+\let\footnote=\endnote
+\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
+\begin{document}
+ </xsl:text>
+ </xsl:param>
+</xsl:stylesheet>
+
+
+Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like +this:
+ ++dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml ++ +
The end result can be seen on github, where +my +book project is located.
+ +