Re: [docbook-apps] two-column layout for article abstract

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

Hi Stefan,
The parameters for column count apply to page-sequences in FO output. They are used in 
declaring the fo:simple-page-masters used in page-sequences.  There is a set of column 
params for each class of page-master, such as front, body, back, etc.

The abstract element is a block element that does not generate its own page-sequence. 
In that respect, it is more like a figure or table that spans multiple columns. Such 
column spans are achieved on an fo:block by adding a span="all" property to the block. 
I suspect you already have something like that for the article title and author.

To apply that property to abstract, you can add it to the attribute-set named 
'abstract.properties'.  However, some FO processors don't handle such spanned blocks 
when they are contained in another block, as for title page elements.  See this doc 
for more details on this complication.

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MultiColumns.html#PageColSpans

But if you have spans working for the title, then getting it to work for abstract 
should not be too hard.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Seefeld" <stefan@seefeld.name>
To: "DocBook Apps Mailing List" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:53 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] two-column layout for article abstract


> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to customize the fo stylesheets to produce a IEEE-compliant
> paper. The template that I'm looking at prints the abstract within the
> first column. It seems that the DB stylesheets aren't prepared to have
> the abstract be part of the two-column layout, as there doesn't appear
> to be a "column.count.abstract" parameter. Is that a simple omission, or
> is there a more  fundamental reason behind this ?
>
> Thanks,
>        Stefan
>
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