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 >> >> >
