Johnny
 
All three items are quite easily doable.You need to have a customization  
layer that "adjusts" the builtin capabilities. Bob Stayton's book is a  must. 
I still reference it even after years of working with Docbook. And this is  
the correct forum for getting those answers.
 
I would suggest doing one of these first and get that working and then move 
 on to all of the other issues.
I am including my own header with logo stylesheet that you can examine and  
modify as you wish. It may get you started in the right direction. I will 
also  include the shading of the <programlisting> which you should be able to 
 modify to work like you want.
 
Let me know if that helps.
 
Cheers,
Dean Nelson
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/10/2011 2:41:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

Hi,  recently I got started with my first docbook document, and I am very  
satisfied with the great possibilities to publish a number of output  
formats 
from a single structured document.

Coming from LaTeX, I am  looking for possibilities to customize high 
quality PDF 
output. For  example, I'd like to modify paragraph indentation, font sizes, 
line  
spacing, page numbering, page headers and footers etc. Ideally I am  
looking for 
a gallery of document layouts from which I can choose one and  maybe fine 
tune, 
as it is possible under LaTeX by choosing from a large  number of document 
classes (like e.g. koma script).

Some help is  given at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html. 
But  
those  options are too limited to do things like putting a logo into  the 
page 
header, numbering frontmatter pages like i,ii,iii,iv,... and only  the main 
document 1,2,3,..., putting a light yellow background below  verbatim 
(code) text 

boxes, etc. (If someone points me to an  explanation how to achieve these 
three 
options - logo, page numbering,  code background color - I might have a 
better 
idea where to look for other  solutions in the future.)

Should I go the DBLatex way and change the  intermediate LaTeX file to use 
the 
desired document class? Or can I find  an idiot-proof PDF customization 
tutorial 
somewhere that doesn't require  me to learn the low-level PDF language?

Thank  you
Johnny




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