Re: [docbook-apps] Suppressing chapter title

["William R. Greene" <wrg@acm.org>]

On 2011-06-21 , at 16:28:21, Bob Stayton wrote:

> I assume creating an empty title element does not meet your needs.  Omitting a chapter title raises a bunch of details.
> 
> 1.  Would you be marking the special chapter or title element with an attribute, such as condition="foo", or will the stylesheet be trying to match on the text of the title?

I could go either way with this.

> 2.  Would the chapter still be numbered, with just the title being blank, or do you want the chapter numbering sequence to "go around" the chapter with the missing title?

Keep the numbering.

> 3.  Do you want the space preserved for the title on the chapter title page, or should the chapter content start at the top?

Start at the top.

> 4.  Do you want the chapter omitted from the table of contents and PDF bookmarks?

No.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William R. Greene" <wrg@acm.org>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:11 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Suppressing chapter title
> 
> 
> What is the best way to suppress output of the title for one particular chapter (say, "Foo"), while leaving the other chapter titles unchanged?  I need to do this for both HTML and FO output.
> 
>  -- Bill Greene

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