thanks a lot! ill try one of those as soon as i can
2013/2/4 Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net> > ** > Hi Critobal, > Although the DocBook stylesheet has empty placeholder templates named > 'front.cover' and 'back.cover', those are only called when processing a > book element. > > I can think of three approaches to this problem. > > 1. Create a book that contains just a book title and an article, where > the book title matches the article title. That's valid DocBook, but it > might produce artifacts like a table of contents and verso title page that > you would need to turn off in the XSL, neither of which is difficult. > > 2. Copy the template with match="d:article" from fo/component.xsl to your > customization layer, add a call to 'article.front.cover' before the main > page-sequence, and write a template by that name that generates an > fo:page-sequence prior to the main article page-sequence. Something like: > > <xsl:template match="d:article"> > ... > <!-- add just this line --> > <xsl:call-template name="article.front.cover"/> > > <fo:page-sequence [existing sequence for the main article] > ... > </xsl:template> > > and write this template: > > <xsl:template name="article.front.cover"> > <xsl:call-template name="page.sequence"> > <xsl:with-param name="content"> > [the fo:blocks that make up the content of the cover page] > </xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:template> > > 3. The titlepage system for article automatically calls an empty > placeholder template named 'article.titlepage.before.recto' that is called > before the regular title page, but within the main page-sequence. You > could customize that template: > > <xsl:template name="article.titlepage.before.recto"> > [the fo:blocks that make up the content of the cover page] > <fo:block break-after="page"/> > </xsl:template> > > This one needs the forced page break after it because it is included in > the main article page-sequence. > > In either case, the content needs to be specified. The simplest would be > to copy the article titlepage content: > > <xsl:call-template name="article.titlepage.recto"/> > > If you need less than that, then copy just the contents of that template > from fo/titlepage.templates.xsl to your customized template and remove the > elements you don't want on the cover. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@sagehill.net > > *From:* Cristobal Vio <cr...@antica.cl> > *Sent:* Monday, February 04, 2013 10:51 AM > *To:* docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > *Subject:* [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover > > Hi there! > > I'm learning to use DocBook and I was trying to figure out how to make an > article with coverpage... Or alternatively a book without the need of > chapters (although i think I'd prefer the first thing) The xsl stylesheet > scheme seems so flexible that I thought it must be possible... but i was > lost in tons of sites on xsl stylesheet discussions... > > I will continue my search, but I thought maybe i could just ask you (since > you are the one person that surely knows that already) if it was possible > and maybe if you had the appropriate reference for me :) > > many, many thanks in advance, > > Cristóbal Vio > > > Update: > > I've continued my search and it still isn't clear to me if I need to do a > new xsl style or alter the dtd part concerning the article type. > > Still hoping you can answer. > > Thanks in advance, > > Cristóbal > >
