Thanks! 

For those that come upon this, it was as simple as described above. The 
only other thing I had to do was add the asciidoc attribute indicating that 
there is docinfo -- "-a docinfo".

On Monday, August 19, 2013 2:35:30 AM UTC-5, Will wrote:
>
> Hi Bill[1],
>
> Did you try putting it in a docinfo file (e.g. $1-docinfo.xml)?  It works 
> for me.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill[2]
>
>
> On Sunday, 18 August 2013 18:28:57 UTC+1, Bill Turner wrote:
>>
>> I am a noob in just about the entire tool chain. I have been researching 
>> this issue for hours. It seems that I need to pass-through docbook markup 
>> to get a subtitle, but I am not seeing it when I generate either the HTML 
>> nor the PDF. I had been working directly with DocBook (v5) on this project. 
>> Generating the PDF via Oxygen did generate the subtitle. So, if someone can 
>> help point me to a fix, I appreciate it.
>>
>> Here is my snippet from my AsciiDoc file:
>>
>> My Book Title
>> ifdef::backend-docbook[]
>> ++++
>> <subtitle>My Book Subtitle</subtitle>
>> ++++
>> endif::backend-docbook[]
>> ================
>> Bill Turner
>> v1.0, 2013-08
>> :doctype: book
>>
>>
>> I hav tried placing that conditional pass-through block in several 
>> locations, and have tried several other variations, all to no avail. This 
>> includes moving it after the "=====" and after the author/revision info.
>>
>> Here are the commands I am using to create the PDF output. I do not see 
>> the subtitle anywhere in my generated xml.
>>
>> # generate the PDF output
>> cmd="asciidoc -a lang=en -v -b docbook -d book $1.asciidoc"
>> $cmd
>>
>> cmd="dblatex -V -T db2latex $1.xml"
>> $cmd
>>
>>
>> FYi - The $1 is the filename prefix. These commands are contained withing 
>> a shell script that I am running within Cygwin.
>>
>> /bill
>>
>>

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