docbook-apps

  • 1.  print customization without title page?

    Posted 06-25-2008 15:59
    Dear list,
    one of our projects has requested a feature, for which I could not find a solution and therefore ask for your support:

    My colleagues want to have one customization layer for displaying the whole documents content and another customization producing an FO/PDF output with a very condensed content. The condensed output should not have a title page.

    I have tried to adjust the "mytitlepage.spec.xml" (gets transformed to "mytitlepages.xsl") in the following way:







    <t:titlepage t:element="book" t:wrapper="fo:block">

    <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">

    </t:titlepage-content>

    <t:titlepage-content t:side="verso">

    </t:titlepage-content>

    <t:titlepage-separator>

    </t:titlepage-separator>

    <t:titlepage-before t:side="recto" />

    <t:titlepage-before t:side="verso">

    </t:titlepage-before>
    </t:titlepage>


    So with that, I get one single blank title page before the documents content. But I do not want a title page at all. Could you please give me a hint.

    Thanks, Martin

    The customization layer includes the mytitlepages.xsl with the following line:
    <xsl:include href="../docbook/stylesheet/mytitlepages.xsl"/>

    Root element: book
    We use: DocBook XML V4.5, XSTLProc, Antenna House V 4.2


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  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] print customization without title page?

    Posted 06-29-2008 22:28
    This problem is caused by the template with match="book" in fo/division.xsl:

    <xsl:template match="book">
    <xsl:variable name="id">
    <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/>
    </xsl:variable>

    <xsl:variable name="preamble"
    select="title|subtitle|titleabbrev|bookinfo|info"/>

    <xsl:variable name="content"
    select="node()[not(self::title or self::subtitle
    or self::titleabbrev
    or self::info
    or self::bookinfo)]"/>

    <xsl:variable name="titlepage-master-reference">
    <xsl:call-template name="select.pagemaster">
    <xsl:with-param name="pageclass" select="'titlepage'"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>

    <xsl:call-template name="front.cover"/>

    <xsl:if test="$preamble">
    <xsl:call-template name="page.sequence">
    <xsl:with-param name="master-reference"
    select="$titlepage-master-reference"/>
    <xsl:with-param name="content">
    <fo:block id="{$id}">
    <xsl:call-template name="book.titlepage"/>
    </fo:block>
    </xsl:with-param>
    </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:if>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="dedication" mode="dedication"/>

    <xsl:call-template name="make.book.tocs"/>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="$content"/>

    <xsl:call-template name="back.cover"/>

    </xsl:template>

    The template creates a variable named "preamble" that tests for the
    existance of any elements that would appear on a title page. If there are
    such elements, it makes a page-sequence and processes them.

    However, with your customization, the "book.titlepage" template outputs
    nothing, resulting in this FO output:

    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
    <fo:block id="bobsbook"/>
    </fo:flow>

    In Antenna House, this empty block is enough to generate the empty page (not
    so in XEP).

    So I would suggest that you copy this template to your customization layer,
    and define a new stylesheet parameter to control this page-sequence, rather
    than using the "preamble" variable. Then you don't need to modify the
    titlepage spec file at all. You can turn the titlepages on or off with the
    parameter.

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net



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