Thanks Nic - you
are right that this happens in several places. I have made some progress - I
can turn off the generation of the "cover.html" chunk by customising
<xsl:template name="cover">.
I can also
remove the itemref "cover" from the OPF spine by customising
<xsl:template name="opf.spine">, and remove reference "cover.html"
from OPF guide by customising <xsl:template name="opf.guide">.
However, I cannot remove
<meta name="cover" content="coverimage" /> from OPF metadata, nor can
I remove the items "cover" and "coverimage" from OPF manifest - customising
<xsl:template name="opf"> theoretically should work, but customising
to select or deselect <xsl:element
namespace="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" name="meta"> doesn't do anything
in the content.opf. Perhaps this is a bug?
Cheers,
Dave Gardiner
-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Gibson <>
To: redlettucemail <>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:22:50 +0100
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Turning off generation of epub cover
Hi Dave
There are several places as far as I can see.
I think there's a good argument for refactoring the code here. There
isn't a single parameter that allows the generation of the cover to be
disabled as far as I can see. I'm looking to see if any of the code I wrote
for a similar purpose can be reused. Can it wait until a weekday? I'm not
working on EPUB creation again until Tuesday.
nic
On 24 Jul 2011, at 08:03,
redlettucemail wrote:
I've thought a
bit more about this. Is there one or more pieces of code in the epub
docbook.xsl that controls whether a XHTML chunk is created? What I'd like is
to add a parameter that gives users the choice of turning off a front cover.
If I can find the code that kicks off the writing of a 'cover' chunk, I can
customise a param to either select or ignore that piece of code. Any
suggestions would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Dave Gardiner
-----Original Message-----
From: "redlettucemail" <
>
To:
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:47:00 +1000
Subject: [docbook-apps] Turning off generation of epub cover
Is there an easy
way to turn off the generation of a front cover? I have set up a DB 1.76 NS
customisation that always generates a "cover.html". I've tried various
options in the epub titlepage (where I have a template
name="book.titlepage.recto" similar to the FO titlepage template) by adding
a param value that lets a user select the cover on or off, but I'm lost.
What I'd like is to write in an option that allows: no
"cover.html" to be generated; and exclude the associated cover image info
from toc.ncx and content.opf. I can't follow the logic of covers in
docbook.xsl. Any ideas please?
Thanks
Dave Gardiner
Nic Gibson
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