If you need a reliable tool for technical documentation, this clear and concise reference will help you take advantage of docbook, the popular xml schema originally developed to document computer and hardware projects. Title page customization create a titlepage spec file. In a set, book almost always begins on the next available recto page. The authorgroup and author content have been moved to the page footer, produced by the footer.
So, we started using the book map which works great to pull metadata inserted at the top of the bookmap and push it in the title page. I have found that more often its not docbook, but the unique tool chains people build around it, that have the steep learning curve. Levels in book and chapter tocs customized toc levels turning on section tocs keeping selected titles out of the toc customizing toc presentation figure, table, and other titles formal title placement person names chapter 10. The definitive guide is the official documentation for docbook. The last example was relatively simple, lacking complex structures like lists, tables and footnotes. Suffice to read this tutorial to learn everything about assemblies docbook already has all the elements youll ever need when writing technical documentation e. It explains how to create several kinds of docbook documents. It can also display a list of books, and for each book it can support multiple languages translations. I am not sure why the designers of these stylesheets decided that because that repeats the information including the cover image. Aug 14, 2018 docbook dokuwiki is a wiki system that includes docbook xml support. Sorry if this is a dumb question but picking this up has been a learning curve.
The name you give the section will become the section id in the produced docbook document. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software though it is by no means limited to these. Different from the other applications, which convert a docbook document into html first, in order to display it online, docbookwiki converts it on the fly, so that the format for saving the document will still be xml docbook. Although docbook is focused on technical writing styles, it is general enough to describe most prose writing. At some point you may want to better understand the inner workings. Title page of book of mormon, circa early june 1829, page 1. Let us return to our old friend docbook for inspiration.
Jss history stated that the title page was taken from the very last leaf, on the left hand side of the collection or book of plates, which contained the record which has been translated. The docbook xsl stylesheets come in two flavors, one to process docbook 5. What specifically is listed on the title page will depend on the type of book written and if its a part of a series. The constant features are the title, author name, and publisher. The book is an excellent manual for the docbook xsl stylesheets. Although the following descriptions focus on a book title page, the same procedure. Specifies the elements which should occur on the titlepage recto. Which components have a toc levels in book and chapter tocs customized toc levels turning on. In more detail, the root element of the document is book. Docbookwiki can also be used to edit a docbook document online, from the web.
Use a title page spec file to generate a customized title page stylesheet file. The content of a book is contained within the book element. These are placeholders, for the content that comes from your docbook documents. You may want to customize both the content and the format of your book, article, chapter, or section title pages. If theres an official site for docbook the standard, its probably the oasis one. For example, one might want the title, subtitle, and author but not the statement or the revision history on the title page of a book with a 24pt bold book title, a 20pt subtitle, etc. Customize existing attributesets that apply to whole title pages of a given element type book, chapter, etc. The abstract classes authored entry, dated entry, titled entry and book titled entry. In reading the first paragraph, let us change our mindset and assume that mormon wrote it rather than moroni. Docbook 2, as for it, is an xmlbased format for document composition. In support of docbook users everywhere, this book and its source xml are available online. The part titles in multipart books are top level titles same level as book title. Docbook is an sgml dialect developed by oreilly and hal computer systems in 1991.
It is an xml schema or dtd, or relax ng, the information is described independently of the presenting. The docbook xsl stylesheets for fo output generates two pages with the document title information. Its the official site for the oreilly book about docbook. Aug 20, 2014 ideally, i would like to format the book title to be approximately rd down form the top of the front page but i will worry about that later once i get a handle on if the logo can be inserted. Book of mormon 1981title page wikisource, the free. The title also has an additional colon after it that is not present in the book title. Generally causes a forced page break, restarts page numbering, and may generate additional front and back matter e. Docbook xsl configurator is an umbrella project containing three java swing applications used to create docbook xsl customization layers fo, html, and manpages and then execute external subprocesses to transform docbook xml and view the output. Docbook allows an author to concentrate on the organisation and meaning of the document, in order to ensure all documents have consistent appearance irrespective of the technical writer.
Afaik, only one mediaobject is recognized in the title page spec file. Title page processing in docbook xsl involves a large number of templates and many opportunities for intervention for customization purposes. Mar 01, 2010 docbook xml is a structured futureproof content for publishers. So let us set our sights on something more challenging. Use this method if you want to add or remove elements to the title page and dont need fine control over page layout. It supports section level editing with locking, as well as an easy document structure editor. To create a title page directly using named templates proceed as follows. Sep 14, 2017 docbook sometimes has a reputation for being hard to learn. This paper explores some of the design issues confronted by the author in designing xsl stylesheets for docbook, an xml dtd maintained by the docbook technical committee of oasis. Follow instructionsfor setting up local file generation open your. Building stylesheets for a large, rich xml vocabulary is a challenging exercise.
I can see the extra line that is generating the second page in the. When the reader is reading a certain section of a book and he changes the language, he will see the same section in the selected language. The input order of major components is taken to be the desired output. Only the title parameter is displayed, and we dont want to but the info in the fos. Chapters can be grouped by preceding them with a level 0 book part title.
Generally causes a forced page break, restarts page numbering, and may generate additional front and back matter tables of contents and indexes, for example automatically. Aug 27, 2020 an abridgment taken from the book of ether also, which is a record of the people of jared, who were scattered at the time the lord confounded the language of the people, when they were building a tower to get to heavenwhich is to show unto the remnant of the house of israel what great things the lord hath done for their fathers. Docbook is an online booking service for people wanting to see gpdoctors. I am looking into structuring book fiction in docbook 5. Semantically, this document is a book, with a title, that contains two chapters each with their own titles. As well as containing structural markup, this element can contain elements that include additional information about the book. Apache fop it is a java application that reads a formatting object fo tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Docbook describes the content of articles, books, technical manuals, and other documents. Of course, youre always free to buy a copy, too, if youd like. Title pages for other elements are handled in a similar. I am trying to create a title page for fo processing with two images. Its of course possible to specify how book components should be numbered if at all.
The docbook definition of a book is very loose and general. Multiple cover elements may be used to hold material for the inside and. Title pages for other elements are handled in a similar manner. I have got several introductory pages like about the book, about the author, about the publisher with, isbn info about the printer and the pagesetter, bastard title, title page. The definitive guide is the complete, official documentation of docbook 5.
Given the variety of books authored with docbook and the number of different conventions for book organization used in countries around the world, attempting to impose a strict ordering of elements can make the content model extremely complex. Its unlikely that youd want all of these titles to be presented in the same way, so a more robust stylesheet would have to arrange the processing of titles with more context. Getting an unwanted second title page when processing docbook. See the section template sequence for book title pages for a description of the sequence of templates executed for a books title pages. When the final docbook document is created, the section title will be translated into a title tag within that section. The title has been moved to the page header, produced by the header. In keeping with our earlier discussion of parameterization, some of these settings can be handled with an appropriate attribute set. This construction rule applies equally to chapter titles, figure titles, and book titles. Clearly, this lack of a challenge is an insult to any selfrespecting xsl formatter. If i remove the title page using xsl parameters, the title page is removed, but the broken title page still remains in the pdf. Docbook provides a wide range of metadata elements that can be entered in infoelements such as bookinfoor chapterinfo. Title page customization create a titlepage spec file html titlepage specs special titlepages generate custom xsl templates. The previous edition of the book covered both sgml and xml and was aimed at the docbook v3. It is currently maintained by the organization for the advancement of structured information standards.
Docbook xsl stylesheet distribution to a directory where all your fo customization is stored. In order to do this efficiently, docbookwiki splits it first into chunks, according to. While there are many different layouts that publishers use for the title page of a book, below is a simple book title page example. I assume you want to customize the title page in the pdf output. This may indicate that the title page was recorded as the last page of the plates that constituted the book of mormon. For example, if book titlepagerectoelements is title subtitle author, then the title, subtitle, and author elements in the division or components info element will appear on the books titlepage recto. Generally causes a forced page break, restarts page numbering, and may. The catalog file format was defined in 1994 by sgml open now oasis. Those chapters contain paragraphs that have text in them. This site hosts the docbook stylesheets and schema files. It allows collaborative writing of docbook xml documents in a wiki way. Nov 26, 2018 the purpose of docbook xsl is to provide a standard set of xml transformations xslt from docbook to several presentational formats, one of which is xslfo. Book documents will normally be used to produce docbook output since docbook processors can automatically generate footnotes, table of contents, list of tables, list of figures, list of examples and.
Compared to html, docbook s tags are selfdescribing. Content in figure and informalfigure is not split across pdf page breaks. The design of title pages is one area where customization is often needed. It no longer works, unless i am,again, missing something. These are placeholders, for the content that comes from. Books are normally used to generate docbook markup and the preface, appendix, bibliography, glossary and index section titles. This is either metainformation, used for reference purposes, or additional content used to produce a title page. Getting examples from this book getting docbook request for comments. The brief fourword title the book of mormon is the same title that has appeared on the cover and title page of all editions and appears first on the title page of the current edition. Docbook, universal format for technical documents docbook is one of five formats dedicated for writing technical documents, reference manuals for example.
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