Re: [docbook-apps] Block at bottom of the title page

[Richard Hamilton <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

Bob makes a great point here. with the titlepage spec file you can get
close, but not truly to the bottom of the page. Depends on how low you
want to go:).

Dick

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:27 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> I know of two methods of putting a block at the bottom of a page:
> 
> 1. Use fo:footnote, which will put it at the bottom of the body region. 
> You'll need to deal with the template named footnote-separator to turn off 
> the rule line for the titlepage.
> 
> 2. Put the content in the footer area. That requires messing with the 
> geometry of the titlepage pagemaster and adding it to the xsl:choose 
> statement in the footer.content template.
> 
> I'm don't think either of them could be accomplished just using the 
> titlepage spec file, though.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>
> To: "Remko Tronçon" <remko@el-tramo.be>
> Cc: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Block at bottom of the title page
> 
> 
> Remko,
> 
> I don't know a way to directly say, "put a block at the bottom," but you
> can get the same effect by setting space-before in the appropriate place
> in the titlepage-content in your titlepage.xml file.
> 
> The excerpt below will give you a title at the top of the page, then the
> author 4 inches down. You can adjust as needed to get the position you
> want.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Dick Hamilton
> http://managingwriters.com
> 
> ======================================================================
>   <t:titlepage t:element="book" t:wrapper="fo:block">
>     <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">
>       <title
> t:named-template="division.title"
> param:node="ancestor-or-self::book[1]"
> text-align="center"
> font-size="48pt"
>   font-weight="normal"
> font-family="Arial"/>
>       <author
> text-align="center"
> font-size="16pt"
> space-before="4in"   <!-- set as desired -->
>         font-weight="normal"
> font-family="Arial"/>
>      </t:titlepage-content>
>     ... rest of content ...
>   </t:titlepage>
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:02 +0100, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm building a customized title page style. I have a block that I
> > would like to appear at the bottom of the title page, e.g.
> >
> >         -------------------------
> >              Title
> >                ^
> >                | (whitespace)
> >                v
> >             Author
> >       -------------------------
> >
> > (where the author appears on the bottom of the page). What's the
> > easiest way of getting the block on the bottom of the page?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Remko
> >
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