Re: [docbook-apps] Turning off generation of epub cover

Hi,

Some work is going to be done on the ePub 
stylesheets in August.  Please file a bug report on the DocBook SourceForge 
site for this item so it can be tracked.

 

If anyone else has bug reports or feature requests 
for ePub, please file them soon.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


 

 

  
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From: 
  redlettucemail 

  
To: Nic Gibson ;  
  

  
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:33 AM

  
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Turning off 
  generation of epub cover

  

  
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
Corbas Consulting
Digital Publishing Consultancy and 
    Training
http://www.corbas.co.uk, 
    +44 (0)7718 906817