Re: [docbook-apps] Problems customizing an article titlepage

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

Hi David,
An article differs from a book in that an article does not have a separate 
page-sequence for titlepage.  For an article, the title appears on the same page as 
the body text, and so the titlepage information is included in the single 
page-sequence that uses the 'body' page-master.  That's why your attempts to use 
titlepage-related features for book elements did not work.

Since you cannot change the column count in the middle of a page-sequence, the 
titlepage information for an article needs to be wrapped in a fo:block element with 
span="all", which means to span all columns on the page.  My book has a general 
discussion about spans:

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

You might also look at Dick Hamilton's customization for IEEE article format.

In the case of headers and footers, you will need to customize the header.content, 
footer.content, head.sep.rule, and foot.sep.rule templates for the template parameter 
values of pageclass="body" and sequence="first" to turn those off.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Goss" <dgoss@mueller-inc.com>
To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:34 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Problems customizing an article titlepage


I'm trying to create a PDF title page for my docbooks and I'm running
into two issues. I'm having difficult figuring out what is wrong, partly
because I'm using the article class instead of the book class for my
documents. I'm also using a 2 column layout

1.) Despite having column.count.titlepage set to 1, I'm still getting 2
columns on the titlepage.

2.) I want to remove the headers and footers (and corresponding rulers)
from the titlepage. From what I've read, the titlepage is supposed to
have blank headers/footers already, so I'm not sure how to remove them.

I suspect both of these are part of the behavior of the article class.
Any advice that could point me in the write direction would be greatly
appreciated (mostly likely it's in Bob's book and I just haven't spotted
the solutions yet).

Thank you,

DAVID GOSS | Technical Writer
P 1.800.876.9218 x 345 | F 1.800.588.9866
dgoss@mueller-inc.com
http://www.MuellerReports.com



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