Hi Lex, thanks for your response. I will look at the dblatex manual, for my edification would you mind explaining this?
> This is used when generating xsl:fo for rendering by the FOP > toolchain, not dblatex, thats why it didn't work. What is the FOP toolchain and what do you mean by generating xsl:fo for it? Thanks, Andrew Myers On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 6:56:08 PM UTC-5, Lex Trotman wrote: > > On 13 January 2015 at 07:14, Andrew Myers <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hello, I'm experimenting with asciidoc as an alternative to Latex, which > > I've been using for years. I like the > > idea of a simpler more portable format but I'm having trouble > customizing > > it. > > I'm trying to change the default body font size in a document. I'm on > > Ubuntu and I dug around a bit and found > > /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl which seems to contain all the docbook > font > > settings. > > This is used when generating xsl:fo for rendering by the FOP > toolchain, not dblatex, thats why it didn't work. > > > > > I copied this into my local asciidoc-dblatex.xsl file and updated the > > settings > > > > <xsl:param name="body.font.master">15</xsl:param> > > <xsl:param name="body.font.size"> > > <xsl:value-of select="$body.font.master"/><xsl:text>pt</xsl:text> > > </xsl:param> > > > > This had no effect, I tried a variety of things, including replacing the > > content of 'body.font.size' with the literal text '15pt'. > > After this didn't work I tried editing the file > > /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl directly, which also made no changes to > the > > document. > > > > I'm invoking a2x like this: > > > > a2x -L -f pdf --dblatex-opts "-p asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" file.adoc > > > > My two questions are > > > > 1) Is this the expected way of passing the custom xsl file? I tried > using > > the --xsl-file option but this didn't seem to work. > > It feels a bit odd to need to pass the file inside another options > > block. > > Yes thats how you pass options to the dblatex command. > > > > > 2) How do I change the font size? More generally, why did what I tried > not > > work? > > > > I think dblatex uses latex styles to control rendering, see > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/index.html. > > Cheers > Lex > > > Thanks, > > Andrew Myers > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "asciidoc" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
