Re: [docbook-apps] single column title page and two-column body on same pdf page

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

Brett Gossage <bgossage@invariant-corp.com>, 2006-10-01 20:00 -0500:

> Technical articles often require two-column format with the title and
> abstract on the first page. With no page break between.
> 
> I have a customization layer for pdf output that provides all the content
> and formatting to the get the title, abstract, and body in the format
> required. The page break remains unsolved. After considerable digging, in
> appears the title page and body are always generated in separate
> page-sequences which are required to generate page breaks in xsl:fo. My
> attempts to modify the templates to put them in the same page sequence
> result in fop (0.92) errors.

As an alternative it might be worthwhile to try dblatex:

  http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/

I think the type of customization you need to do would be easier
to achieve in dblatex. I don't know how specifically to do it, but
if you post a question to the dblatex-users list, I'm sure you can
get a quick response.

  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dblatex-users

Ideally, the standard DocBook XSL stylesheets should provide an
option to generate FO output that matches the style you describe
(the style used in many technical journals), but unless/until they
do, I think dblatex may be the better tool for doing it.

  --Mike

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