If you want to repeat the book titlepage on the
cover, you could just call the template named 'book.titlepage.recto' in the
fo:flow of your front cover. If you just want the book title, you could instead
use part of it. See that template in the stylesheet module
fo/titlepage.templates.xsl, or if you have customized the titlepage spec file,
in your generated version.
For the double front cover, yes, it is most likely
doing a double-sided page sequence. The fo:page-sequence element for the cover
needs to have this property:
force-page-count="no-force"
Without that, the default value is "auto", which
means if the page-sequence that follows starts on an odd number, then it
generates an even page to close the cover page sequence. The back cover
doesn't have this problem because it is not followed by any page sequence, so it
doesn't generate an extra page (unless you set
force-page-count="end-on-even").
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Nancy
Brandt
To:
; Bob Stayton
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:08
PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook: A
front cover page is inserted twice -- please help!!!
Hello Bob and all other Docbook users,
First of all, thank you Bob for your quick response! I appreciate
it much!
Regarding the first problem, I don't really imagine how I can
insert a book title into the template similar to how it is inserted into
the first title-page (as in titlepage-templates.xsl).
Regarding the second problem, I removed the book template from
my customization layer, but unfortunately the front cover still appears
twice (as if the cover mechanism generates an even and
odd page). After that comes the titlepage. However, the back cover page
is OK. When I access the FO file, I see the call to the front coverpage
background file only once!!?? I don't understand why this problem
happens. Please, please advise!
Thank you very much in advance!!!!
My best wishes,
Nancy
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Bob Stayton
<> wrote:
From:
Bob Stayton <>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps]
Docbook: A front cover page is inserted twice -- please help!!!
To:
,
Date:
Saturday, January 3, 2009, 3:43 PM
Hi,
Regarding problem 1, I don't see in your
front.cover template anything that would output a book title.
The flow seems to contain only an empty fo:block.
Regarding problem 2, the
stock template (starting with 1.73.1) with match="book" already
calls the templates named 'front.cover' and 'back.cover', so you don't
need that customized book template. That's why you get it
twice.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Brandt
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 03,
2009 12:24 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps]
Docbook: A front cover page is inserted twice -- please
help!!!
Hi folks,
I am struggling with the book template (appears in
division.xsl). I defined both the front cover and back cover
in my custom.xsl. Then I call the book template as
follows:
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:call-template name="front.cover"/>
<xsl:apply-imports/>
<xsl:call-template
name="back.cover"/>
</xsl:template>
When I generate a PDF, the back cover is OK, but
the front cover has the following severe problems:
1) No book title is generated on the front cover's
background/
2) The cover appears twice before the
titlepage-first.
My template for the front coverpage is as
follows:
<!--front coverpage
layout-->
<xsl:template
name="front.cover">
<xsl:variable
name="id">
<xsl:call-template
name="object.id"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:page-sequence
master-reference="front-cover">
<fo:flow
flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>
Its page sequence is defined as
follows:
<xsl:template
name="user.pagemasters">
<xsl:param
name="front-cover.path">
<xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space(//bookinfo//imagedata[@role='frontcover']/@fileref)"/>
</xsl:param>
<fo:simple-page-master
master-name="front-cover"
page-width="{$page.width}"
page-height="{$page.height}"
margin-top="0pt"
margin-bottom="0pt"
margin-left="0pt"
margin-right="0pt">
<fo:region-body
margin-bottom="0pt"
column-gap="{$column.gap.titlepage}"
column-count="{$column.count.titlepage}"
background-image="url({$front-cover.path})"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</xsl:template>
Please, please advise how to solve these issues!!!
Thank you all in advance!!!
Best
wishes,
Nancy
