thanks a lot!
ill try one of those as soon as i can
2013/2/4 Bob Stayton <>
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.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
From: Cristobal Vio
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:51 AM
To:
Subject: [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover
Hi 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 Vio
Update:
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
