Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Beginners Q. Centering chapter titles

[Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>]

Andy,

Welcome to the scary world of title-page templates, which according to 
Norm is the right way to do it. My first impression was that it was to 
wierd, but it is a tremendious efficient tool, that is yoing to save you a 
lot of time and increase your control over formatting issues.

Beside the params, the first place to change formatting is to look at the 
titlepage templates. In your case create you own titlepage template and 
include that in you stylesheet.

Steps

   Create your own copy of fo/titlepage.template.xml 

   Modify the stuff you need to change and delete the rest (in your case 
   modify the template

      <t:titlepage element="chapter" wrapper="fo:block">

         ...

         fo:text-align="center"


      </t:titlepage>


Apply the template/titlepage.xsl to your_titlepage-template.xml result is 
your_titlepage-template.xsl, which you should import in your stylesheet.

Regards

Jens


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Andy Dwelly wrote:

> I've just started using docbook to share some text with colleagues. Using the xsl 1.49 stylesheets and fop
> 0.20.3 I've managed to get nicely rendered PDF in an amazingly short space of time. A big thank you to Norm
> Walsh for the stylesheets.
> 
> The text I'm dealing with is not (strictly speaking) technical and I'm trying to present it in a style that is
> closer to a classical text book than a technical manual. Most of the changes to the stylesheets I need are
> handled by the xsl:params but there's one area that I've not been able to fix. I'm trying to center chapter
> titles over the body text. At the moment the chapter titles are severely left justified.
> 
> What is the best way to do this ?
> 
> Andy Dwelly
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