Custom Mappings

You can modify the ‘beginnings’ and ‘ends’ of some templates through the DB2LaTeX ‘mapping’ system. This is commonly used to commence and environment or section-type component. The steps to do this are the following:

The availability of mappings is indicated in Chapter 1 of the Reference and may be found in latex.mapping.xml.

Create a text file, e.g. mydb2latex.map, like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE latexbindings SYSTEM "http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/xsl/latex.mapping.dtd">
<latexbindings>
  <latexmapping role="begin">
    <mapping key="glossary" text="">
      <line>\section{%title}&#10;</line>
    </mapping>
  </latexmapping>
  <latexmapping role="end">
    <mapping key="glossary" text="\hrulefill &#10;"/>
  </latexmapping>
</latexbindings>

DB2LaTeX lets you specify your mappings via the latex.mapping.xml parameter:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'>
  <xsl:import href="http://db2latex.souceforge.net/xsl/docbook.xsl"/>
  <xsl:param name="latex.mapping.xml" select="document('mydb2latex.map')"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

A large number of customizations are possible if you have some knowledge of LaTeX. For example, you could change the way chapter headings are formatted. You may wish to refer to our LaTeX guide: