Hi David,
An article differs from a book in that an article does not have a separate
page-sequence for titlepage. For an article, the title appears on the same page as
the body text, and so the titlepage information is included in the single
page-sequence that uses the 'body' page-master. That's why your attempts to use
titlepage-related features for book elements did not work.
Since you cannot change the column count in the middle of a page-sequence, the
titlepage information for an article needs to be wrapped in a fo:block element with
span="all", which means to span all columns on the page. My book has a general
discussion about spans:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MultiColumns.html#PageColSpans
You might also look at Dick Hamilton's customization for IEEE article format.
In the case of headers and footers, you will need to customize the header.content,
footer.content, head.sep.rule, and foot.sep.rule templates for the template parameter
values of pageclass="body" and sequence="first" to turn those off.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goss" <[email protected]>
To: "DocBook Apps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:34 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Problems customizing an article titlepage
I'm trying to create a PDF title page for my docbooks and I'm running
into two issues. I'm having difficult figuring out what is wrong, partly
because I'm using the article class instead of the book class for my
documents. I'm also using a 2 column layout
1.) Despite having column.count.titlepage set to 1, I'm still getting 2
columns on the titlepage.
2.) I want to remove the headers and footers (and corresponding rulers)
from the titlepage. From what I've read, the titlepage is supposed to
have blank headers/footers already, so I'm not sure how to remove them.
I suspect both of these are part of the behavior of the article class.
Any advice that could point me in the write direction would be greatly
appreciated (mostly likely it's in Bob's book and I just haven't spotted
the solutions yet).
Thank you,
DAVID GOSS | Technical Writer
P 1.800.876.9218 x 345 | F 1.800.588.9866
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http://www.MuellerReports.com
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