Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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From: "Chris Ridd" <[email protected]>
To: "Bob Stayton" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Conceptual problem formatting <preface> material
On 1 Nov 2010, at 16:49, Bob Stayton wrote:
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.
Right, thanks for helping me avoid that particular blind alley :-)
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']"/>
I'm confused now. Firstly I've got one <preface> with several sections, not multiple
<preface>s. (Though we're amenable to creating multiple <preface>s if it makes
things easier. It isn't /quite/ separating content from presentation though :-)
But I'm mostly confused about your contradictory suggestions in the 1st and last
lines! ie
add a template with match="prefa...@role='something']" to format it
add an empty template with match="prefa...@role='something']"
Ah - there's a mode parameter?
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.
I'm away from my stylesheets ATM, but will look at that tomorrow. I've already
managed to remove the copyright stuff from my titlepage, and I *think* I've removed
the preface from my book template, so I'm part the way there. The dratted preface
still appears in my TOC, so some butchery is still needed...
Cheers,
Chris
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