Hi Chris,
I've done similar books like this using preface elements with role attributes, and
then customizing the book template to output them in the order you want. The
titlepage template system is not really appropriate for that kind of extended
information.
For each special preface, I add a template with match="prefa...@role = 'something']"
to handle its formatting, and then add the following to the book template to apply it:
<xsl:apply-templates select="prefa...@role = 'something']"/>
That way if a book instance does not have such a preface, this step is just
skipped.
You'll also want to add an empty template in normal mode to prevent the preface
element from being processed again in book order:
<xsl:template match="prefa...@role = 'something']"/>
You'll need to decide which of these have their own fo:page-sequence, and call the
template name 'page.sequence' with that as content.
And you'll need to customize the templates named 'page.number.format' and
'initial.page.number' to get the right page numbering scheme.
The trickiest part in this design is getting the copyright and "Contacting"
information on the same page. The copyright info is normally processed in the
titlepage page-sequence. For that case, I would customize the template named
'book.titlepage.verso' to apply templates to that preface element, and leave that one
out of the book template.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ridd" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 7:09 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Conceptual problem formatting <preface> material
Hi,
I am trying to reproduce the structure of existing manuals written in Framemaker, in
2 new manuals written using Docbook and I'm having a little trouble working out how
one is supposed to do radical formatting of front matter.
Our manuals are <book>s.
I have a custom title page constructed via a titlepage template, which just has the
front cover. So far so (relatively) easy...
But then I have some pages with different page numbering (eg i .. vi) that include a
slightly custom formatted TOC, an untitled copyright section, and then some titled
(but un-numbered) sections describing Typographical Conventions etc. (One of the
existing Frame manuals is accessible at
<http://www.isode.com/Documentation/SWADMINT.pdf> in case I'm not explaining this
well.)
The copyright section feels like it should come from the book info, but the
remaining stuff feels like preface material.
What's the best approach for arranging these things? I'm starting to look at
overriding the "book" template from fo/division.xsl, but have a sneaking suspicion
that I really should be doing this all in the titlepage template.
Or is there another way?
I did look at Bob's otherwise excellent book, but didn't really get a good feeling
for the best approach here.
Cheers,
Chris
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