Re: [docbook-apps] Styling subtitle

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Frank,
In the DocBook XSL stylesheets, only title has its own attribute set.  Beyond title, 
an info element can contain lots of other elements, and those are handled by the 
titlepage spec mechanism.  That is described in my book:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html

In your specific case, you can accomplish what you want with the following addition to 
a titlepage spec file before you compile it:

<t:titlepage t:element="section" t:wrapper="fo:block">
  <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">
    <title
             font-family="{$title.fontset}"/>
    <subtitle
             color="blue"
              font-family="Palatino"/>
     ...

(I added color="blue" just to demonstrate that it works, but you probably don't want 
that).

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Arensmeier" <frank@nikemedia.se>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:28 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Styling subtitle


> Hello.
>
> I'd like to apply some special font style on section subtitles in my  pdf but I am 
> not able to find any applicable properties to tweak. I  have tried to set 
> section.title.level2.properties (and level3...level6  too for that matter). But it 
> seems that those properties have no  effect what so ever. I am really not an xsl 
> expert... looking at the  file "sections.xsl" in the docbook 'fo' directory, it 
> seems to me that  section subtitles should be considered as level2 section titles, 
> or  not? The fo output file contains this part:
>
> [snip]
>           <fo:block>
>             <fo:block keep-together.within-column="always" font- 
> family="sans-serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" margin-left="0pc">
>               <fo:block keep-with-next.within-column="always">
>                 <fo:block font-family="Myriad Pro" font- weight="normal" 
> keep-with-next.within-column="always" space- before.minimum="0.8em" 
> space-before.optimum="1.0em" space- before.maximum="1.2em" text-align="start" 
> start-indent="0pc" font- style="normal" font-size="30pt" color="magenta">
>                   <fo:marker marker-class- name="section.head.marker">Section 
> title</fo:marker>
>                   <fo:block font-size="20pt" font-family="Myriad Pro" 
> font-weight="normal" font-style="normal" color="#0072BA">Section  title</fo:block>
>                 </fo:block>
>               </fo:block>
>             </fo:block>
>             <fo:block keep-together.within-column="always" font- 
> family="sans-serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats">Section subtitle</fo:block>
>           </fo:block>
>         </fo:block>
> [/snip]
>
> Basic outline of my XML is:
> <part>
> <section>
> <title>Section title</title>
> <subtitle>Section subtitle</subtitle>
> <para>Paragraph goes here</para>
> </section>
> </part>
>
> The subtitle is always rendered with Helvetica as font family, even  though I've set 
> the body font family to something else. What am I  doing wrong? Any ideas?
>
> /frank
>
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