I'm not sure what you tried, but the following works for me in FOP, XEP, and
XSL Formatter to place a blue color block next to the component title:
<xsl:attribute-set name="component.title.properties">
<xsl:attribute name="border-left">30pt solid blue</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="padding-left">5pt</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="padding-top">5pt</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="start-indent"><xsl:value-of
select="$title.margin.left"/> + 35pt</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Baumgartl" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Modify chapter.titlepage
> Hi,
>
> I want to customize my chapter titles beyond the posibilities of
> component.title.properties - I think.
>
> All I want is a colored block before the text/title, but I don't get it
> work (in FO). If I try to do the task with borders (border-left), the
> border goes above my title. Doing the same thing with an image (gif),
> the image is outputed above my title.
>
> Can you give me a hint?
>
> regards
> Marco
>
>
>
>
