Re: [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover
thanks Bob! I'm now using the 3rd alternative and works great its the one that fitted best further customizations i made and somehow formatting is better than in the 2nd alternative, maybe because of some other stylesheet I imported before of the self-made customizations once again, many thanks 2013/2/6 Cristobal Vio cr...@antica.cl 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
Re: [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover
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
[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
Re: [docbook-apps] docbook article with cover
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 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
[docbook-apps] Docbook article
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/35301 regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook article
Dave Pawson wrote: http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/35301 yes it got good coverage in news websites, good to see that DITA doesn't get the exclusivity. Camille. begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Camille B=C3=A9gnis n;quoted-printable:B=C3=A9gnis;Camille org:NeoDoc adr:;;139 rue Philippe de Girard;Pertuis;;84120;France email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+33.9.54.96.99.55 tel;fax:+33.9.59.96.99.55 tel;cell:+33.6.33.15.10.23 url:http://www.neodoc.biz version:2.1 end:vcard - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook article
Title: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook article Interesting article http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/35301 On the first page I found: Chapters are hierarchical; a chapter can contain other chapters, and they can be nested indefinitely. Oh well, any publicity is better than none. -- Ron Catterall, Phd, DSc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prolongacion de Hidalgo 140 http://catterall.net/ San Felipe del Agua tel: +52 951 520 1821 Oaxaca 68020 Mexico fax: +1 530 348 8309 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook article
Ron Catterall wrote: Interesting article http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/35301 On the first page I found: Chapters are hierarchical; a chapter can contain other chapters, and they can be nested indefinitely. Oh well, any publicity is better than none. They are also using obsolete (2003) XInclude namespace :-( -- -- Jirka Kosek e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xmlguru.cz -- Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing -- OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member -- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
