Re: Moving down the title on the titlepage

[Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 06:52 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
> Hello all -
> 
> I'm using DocBook with the FO XSL v1.69 and am having trouble with the
> titlepage customization.  How can I move the title of my book down to
> near the center of the titlepage?  I've set the space-before attribute
> of the title element inside the t:titlepage-content element to all sorts
> of things (like 100pt) and I can't seem to get the title to shift down.
> 
> I can use a spec file to generate a mytitlepages.xsl and the xsl:include
> works fine - I can change the font size and text alignment of the title
> and author info with no problems.  I can also shift the author info down
> using the space-before; it's just the title itself that I can't seem to
> move down.  Perhaps there's some maximum distance I need to override or
> something?
> 
> I've got Bob's excellent "DocBook XSL: 3rd Ed", and while it's been very
> helpful for _lots_ of other stuff I can't seem to find the answer to
> this in there.

Oh gosh.  As always, five seconds after I send a question to a public
list I come across the answer to the question.  It's like magic.  For
posterity:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200703/msg00055.html

Thanks Bob!

Yours,

Tom