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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Conceptual problem formatting <preface> material
From: "Bob Stayton" <>
To: "Chris Ridd" <>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:21:22 -0700
Oops, hit Send by accident on the previous mail.
I did omit a crucial piece of information. In the first template I meant to process
it in a mode other than normal mode:
<xsl:apply-templates select="preface[@role = 'something']" mode="frontmatter"/>
and that uses the template with:
<xsl:template match="preface[@role = 'something']" mode="frontmatter">
actually processing goes here
</xsl:template>
and the empty template is for normal mode (without a mode attribute). Hope that makes
more sense.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ridd" <>
To: "Bob Stayton" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Conceptual problem formatting <preface> material
>
> On 1 Nov 2010, at 16:49, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>> I've done similar books like this using preface elements with role attributes, and
>> then customizing the book template to output them in the order you want. The
>> titlepage template system is not really appropriate for that kind of extended
>> information.
>
> Right, thanks for helping me avoid that particular blind alley :-)
>
>> For each special preface, I add a template with match="preface[@role =
>> 'something']" to handle its formatting, and then add the following to the book
>> template to apply it:
>>
>> <xsl:apply-templates select="preface[@role = 'something']"/>
>>
>> That way if a book instance does not have such a preface, this step is just
>> skipped.
>>
>> You'll also want to add an empty template in normal mode to prevent the preface
>> element from being processed again in book order:
>>
>> <xsl:template match="preface[@role = 'something']"/>
>
> I'm confused now. Firstly I've got one <preface> with several sections, not multiple
> <preface>s. (Though we're amenable to creating multiple <preface>s if it makes
> things easier. It isn't /quite/ separating content from presentation though :-)
>
> But I'm mostly confused about your contradictory suggestions in the 1st and last
> lines! ie
>
> add a template with match="preface[@role='something']" to format it
> add an empty template with match="preface[@role='something']"
>
> Ah - there's a mode parameter?
>
>> You'll need to decide which of these have their own fo:page-sequence, and call the
>> template name 'page.sequence' with that as content.
>>
>> And you'll need to customize the templates named 'page.number.format' and
>> 'initial.page.number' to get the right page numbering scheme.
>>
>> The trickiest part in this design is getting the copyright and "Contacting"
>> information on the same page. The copyright info is normally processed in the
>> titlepage page-sequence. For that case, I would customize the template named
>> 'book.titlepage.verso' to apply templates to that preface element, and leave that
>> one out of the book template.
>
> I'm away from my stylesheets ATM, but will look at that tomorrow. I've already
> managed to remove the copyright stuff from my titlepage, and I *think* I've removed
> the preface from my book template, so I'm part the way there. The dratted preface
> still appears in my TOC, so some butchery is still needed...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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