You can't call a template partially, but you can look in the template and copy
parts of it to use in your own templates. For example, this piece from
book.titlepage.recto outputs just the title:
<fo:page-sequence ...>
<fo:flow ...>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="bookinfo/title">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.auto.mode"
select="bookinfo/title"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="info/title">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.auto.mode"
select="info/title"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="title">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.auto.mode"
select="title"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Brandt
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org ; Bob Stayton
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A front cover page is inserted twice --
please help!!!
Hello Bob, and other Docbook community members
First of all, thank you Bob for your suggestions!!! You are always
helpful!
I've tried your "force-page-count="no-force" suggestion, and yes it
works (hooray!!!)
Regarding the second suggestion - calling the book.titlepage.recto
template -- it is still not clear to me how to call it partially - for example
only a book title (and not the subtitle, version, etc.)?
Could you please explain this in more detail?
Thank you a lot in advance!
Best regards,
Nancy
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net> wrote:
From: Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A front cover page is inserted
twice -- please help!!!
To: nancy_br...@yahoo.com, docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 8:31 AM
If you want to repeat the book titlepage on the cover, you could just
call the template named 'book.titlepage.recto' in the fo:flow of your front
cover. If you just want the book title, you could instead use part of it. See
that template in the stylesheet module fo/titlepage.templates.xsl, or if you
have customized the titlepage spec file, in your generated version.
For the double front cover, yes, it is most likely doing a
double-sided page sequence. The fo:page-sequence element for the cover needs to
have this property:
force-page-count="no-force"
Without that, the default value is "auto", which means if the
page-sequence that follows starts on an odd number, then it generates an even
page to close the cover page sequence. The back cover doesn't have this
problem because it is not followed by any page sequence, so it doesn't generate
an extra page (unless you set force-page-count="end-on-even").
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Brandt
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org ; Bob Stayton
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A front cover page is inserted
twice -- please help!!!
Hello Bob and all other Docbook users,
First of all, thank you Bob for your quick response! I
appreciate it much!
Regarding the first problem, I don't really imagine how I can
insert a book title into the template similar to how it is inserted into the
first title-page (as in titlepage-templates.xsl).
Regarding the second problem, I removed the book template
from my customization layer, but unfortunately the front cover still appears
twice (as if the cover mechanism generates an even and odd page). After that
comes the titlepage. However, the back cover page is OK. When I access the FO
file, I see the call to the front coverpage background file only once!!?? I
don't understand why this problem happens. Please, please advise!
Thank you very much in advance!!!!
My best wishes,
Nancy
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net> wrote:
From: Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A front cover page is
inserted twice -- please help!!!
To: nancy_br...@yahoo.com, docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 3:43 PM
Hi,
Regarding problem 1, I don't see in your front.cover
template anything that would output a book title. The flow seems to contain
only an empty fo:block.
Regarding problem 2, the stock template (starting with
1.73.1) with match="book" already calls the templates named 'front.cover' and
'back.cover', so you don't need that customized book template. That's why you
get it twice.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Brandt
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:24 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A front cover page is
inserted twice -- please help!!!
Hi folks,
I am struggling with the book template (appears in
division.xsl). I defined both the front cover and back cover in my custom.xsl.
Then I call the book template as follows:
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:call-template name="front.cover"/>
<xsl:apply-imports/>
<xsl:call-template name="back.cover"/>
</xsl:template>
When I generate a PDF, the back cover is OK, but
the front cover has the following severe problems:
1) No book title is generated on the front cover's
background/
2) The cover appears twice before the
titlepage-first.
My template for the front coverpage is as follows:
<!--front coverpage layout-->
<xsl:template name="front.cover">
<xsl:variable name="id">
<xsl:call-template name="object.id"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-cover">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>
Its page sequence is defined as follows:
<xsl:template name="user.pagemasters">
<xsl:param name="front-cover.path">
<xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space(//bookinfo//imageda...@role='frontcover']/@fileref)"/>
</xsl:param>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="front-cover"
page-width="{$page.width}"
page-height="{$page.height}"
margin-top="0pt"
margin-bottom="0pt"
margin-left="0pt"
margin-right="0pt">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0pt"
column-gap="{$column.gap.titlepage}"
column-count="{$column.count.titlepage}"
background-image="url({$front-cover.path})"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</xsl:template>
Please, please advise how to solve these issues!!!
Thank you all in advance!!!
Best wishes,
Nancy
