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

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

Hi Stefan,
Yes, that looks fine.  I misunderstood your original mail, as I thought the abstract 
was not included in the spanned content and you wanted to add it.  But I had that 
backwards, and see now that in IEEE articles the abstract is not spanned.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Seefeld" <stefan@seefeld.name>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "DocBook Apps Mailing List" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] two-column layout for article abstract


> Hi Bob,
>
> thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I entirely understand the logic, but
> here is what I figured out would help, so please let me know if my logic
> is approximately correct:
>
> With the default stylesheets, the "abstract" element is dealt with as
> part of the titlepage. In the case of Richard's IEEE article
> customization, where a two-column layout is used, the titlepage is dealt
> with with
>
>      <fo:block id="{$id}" span="all"
> xsl:use-attribute-sets="ieee.title.block.properties">
>        <xsl:call-template name="article.titlepage"/>
>      </fo:block>
>
> If I want the abstract to respect the two-column layout, I need to move
> it out of the titlepage block. To do this I re-generate the titlepage
> templates with the abstract removed, then add a template
>
>    <xsl:template match="d:article/d:info">
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="d:abstract"/>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> that handles the abstract in non-titlepage.mode.
>
> The effect of this is that the "abstract" block is moved from the
> titlepage block (which uses 'span="all"') downwards, such that it flows
> in a single column (the first typically, as it is the first thing
> printed after the titlepage block. Is my understanding correct ? And is
> the approach sensible ?
>
> Thanks,
>        Stefan
>
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>
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