Re: [docbook-apps] Creating a chapter title page with chapter number and title on different lines

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

Hi Paul,

The third example in this section is similar to what you need.  It puts the number and title on separate lines.  Just omit the call to the gentext template to avoid the "Chapter" text.

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitleFontSizes.html#ChapterTitles

 

In general, you can process an element in mode="label.markup" to generate just its number, and in mode="title.markup" to generate just its title.  You get both when you process in mode="object.title.markup".

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

From: Paul Hoadley

Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:24 AM

To: Docbook Apps

Subject: [docbook-apps] Creating a chapter title page with chapter number and title on different lines

Hello,

I'm trying to create a chapter title page (with the FO stylesheets) that's reminiscent of some of the O'Reilly books.  Something like this, say:

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That is, chapter number, absence of the "Chapter" generated text, and then chapter title in a new block.  I've been out of the DocBook loop for a few years, but I've done title page customisations before—with this, though, I seem to be running around in circles through the template system.  Could someone give me the briefest outline on how to customise the output for the chapter 'title' element like this?  I'm looking at the 'component.title' template in component.xsl, but I can't see where the title text itself is being generated ('<xsl:apply-templates select="$node" mode="object.title.markup">'?), or how I would go about customising it very specifically like this just for chapters.

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Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/