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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover
Hi Critobal,Although the DocBook stylesheet has empty placeholder templates named 'front.cover' and 'back.cover', those are only called when processing a book element.I can think of three approaches to this problem.1. Create a book that contains just a book title and an article, where the book title matches the article title. That's valid DocBook, but it might produce artifacts like a table of contents and verso title page that you would need to turn off in the XSL, neither of which is difficult.2. Copy the template with match="d:article" from fo/component.xsl to your customization layer, add a call to 'article.front.cover' before the main page-sequence, and write a template by that name that generates an fo:page-sequence prior to the main article page-sequence. Something like:<xsl:template match="d:article">...<!-- add just this line --><xsl:call-template name="article.front.cover"/><fo:page-sequence [existing sequence for the main article]...</xsl:template>and write this template:<xsl:template name="article.front.cover"><xsl:call-template name="page.sequence"><xsl:with-param name="content">[the fo:blocks that make up the content of the cover page]</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template></xsl:template>3. The titlepage system for article automatically calls an empty placeholder template named 'article.titlepage.before.recto' that is called before the regular title page, but within the main page-sequence. You could customize that template:<xsl:template name="article.titlepage.before.recto">[the fo:blocks that make up the content of the cover page]<fo:block break-after="page"/></xsl:template>This one needs the forced page break after it because it is included in the main article page-sequence.In either case, the content needs to be specified. The simplest would be to copy the article titlepage content:<xsl:call-template name="article.titlepage.recto"/>If you need less than that, then copy just the contents of that template from fo/titlepage.templates.xsl to your customized template and remove the elements you don't want on the cover.From: Cristobal VioSent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:51 AMSubject: [docbook-apps] docbook article with coverHi there!
I'm learning to use DocBook and I was trying to figure out how to make an article with coverpage... Or alternatively a book without the need of chapters (although i think I'd prefer the first thing) The xsl stylesheet scheme seems so flexible that I thought it must be possible... but i was lost in tons of sites on xsl stylesheet discussions...I will continue my search, but I thought maybe i could just ask you (since you are the one person that surely knows that already) if it was possible and maybe if you had the appropriate reference for me :)
many, many thanks in advance,Cristóbal VioUpdate:
I've continued my search and it still isn't clear to me if I need to do a new xsl style or alter the dtd part concerning the article type.Still hoping you can answer.Thanks in advance,Cristóbal
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