Re: [docbook-apps] abstract formatting. HTML output

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 11:07 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> In the DocBook stylesheets, the titlepage mechanism is a generalization of
> the book titlepage, and it is used for all elements in the document
> hierarchy.  The titlepage spec file lets you create titlepages for chapters,
> appendices, sections, etc.  In fact, the sectioninfo/abstract *is* titlepage
> content, but for a section titlepage. 
And hope there isn't a contradiction with a book titlepage layout?
OK. Understood. 
Thanks for the clarification.

> The reason your templates didn't work is because all the titlepage stuff is
> processed in mode="titlepage.mode" so that they aren't processed in the
> default mode, but are handled by the titlepage mechanism.  I think if you
> added that mode to your templates, then your overrides would win.

That sounds like the solution!
Thanks Bob.

regards DaveP