Arun,
Gotcha.
In the DocBook toolchain (XSL FO), this change is incredibly painful. I've
been doing XSLT for over a decade and I feel completely lost in the DocBook
XSL stylesheets. I'd rather clean houses for a living. If you enjoy the
pain, then you need to figure out which XSL stylesheet to copy into your
own workspace and what you have to change in the convoluted mess of the XML
that's there. It's not easy, and I don't think you should bother with it.
...that's why I created Asciidoctor PDF [1] (currently in pre-alpha). I've
long wanted a way that we can make modifications either in regular
programming code (in this case, Ruby or Java) or by configuration. The
configuration would be something we would need to accommodate for in
Asciidoctor PDF out of the box.
Right now, there isn't yet a formal extension point for overriding the
title page...but it *is* extensible. You would have to create a Ruby class
that extends the Asciidoctor PDF renderer class and overrides the
render_title_page method. Something like:
class MyPdfRenderer < Asciidoctor::PdfRenderer
def render_title_page
# do whatever you want here
end
end
You'd have to understand the Prawn (PDF Writer) API a bit, but it's quite
straightforward.
I'm not expecting you to be able to do this just yet. Simply put, it's not
ready yet. But we're headed towards something that is very hackable in the
very near future.
...for things that we can image as built-in behavior, we can pick up the
configuration from the AsciiDoc attributes or from the YAML-like theme
configuration file. We have some experimenting to do to sort out what works
best.
Stay tuned!
-Dan
[1] https://github.com/opendevise/asciidoctor-pdf
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Arun Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> The primary purpose is PDF to begin with, but something more generic would
> be useful.
>
> Arun
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:55:37 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Allen wrote:
>
>> Arun,
>>
>> You need to be specific about what rendering engine you wish to
>> configure. I'm assuming you are talking about the PDF. What you need to
>> change depends on whether you are using DocBook (XSL-FO), dblatex or
>> Asciidoctor PDF.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Arun Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to add some more metadata on the title page, such as:
>>>
>>> Twitter Handle
>>> Background Image
>>> Company Name
>>>
>>> Any tips on how to author it ?
>>>
>>> Arun
>>>
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