Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images at top of book

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

The reason you don't see your graphics inside <corpname>
is because that element isn't in the default title page
specification.

To get control of your HTML title pages, you'll need
to read the "Customizing title pages" answer in
Dave Pawson's FAQ:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/styling/custom.html

You have complete control of your title pages by creating
a title page specification file in XML. But
the cost is greater complexity, rather than just setting
a couple of parameters.

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:46:33PM -0500, Jeff Rancier wrote:
> Thanks.  I'm using the 1.50 XSL stylesheets, and when I transform to HTML, I
> get none of the images for the bookinfo element?  Is that correct?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
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> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Beal" <jeff.beal@ansys.com>
> To: "'Jeff Rancier'" <jeff.rancier@softechnics.com>; "Docbook-Apps@Lists.
> Oasis-Open. Org" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:09 PM
> Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images at top of book
> 
> 
> Semantically speaking, your best option will be using the <bookinfo> tag,
> which allows <mediaobject> as a child.  Doing it this way, getting the
> images to show up in a single line will need to be a stylesheet
> customization.
> 
> However, <bookinfo> also allows several tags (such as <corpname>) which
> allow <inlinemediaobject>, which will then show up on a line.
> 
> So, the following should work fairly easily:
> <book>
>  <bookinfo>
>    <title>...</title>
>    <subtitle>...</subtitle>
>    <corpname><inlinemediaobject>. .
> .</inlinemediabobject><inlinemediaobject>. .
> .</inlinemediaobject></corpname>
>  </bookinfo>
>  . . .
> </book>
> 
> You may want to look at other valid children of bookinfo which allow
> inlinemediaobjects.  (Subtitle also allows for inlinemediaobject's, but if
> you're using subtitle for something else, you'll just have your company
> logos inline with that line.
> 
> Jeff Beal
> Ansys, Inc.
> (724)514-3150
> jeff.beal@ansys.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rancier [mailto:jeff.rancier@softechnics.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:51 PM
> To: Docbook-Apps@Lists. Oasis-Open. Org
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Images at top of book
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to generate a book which currently starts out like so:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Arbortext//DTD DocBk XML V2.0//EN"
> "file:///docbookx.dtd" []>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="file:///docbook.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> 
> <book>
>   <title>My Product<trademark></trademark> Enhancement Requirements</title>
>   <subtitle>My SubTitle</subtitle>
>   <dedication>
>     <screenshot>
>       <mediaobject>
>         <imageobject>
>           <imagedata fileref="images/image1.gif" format="gif"/>
>         </imageobject>
>       </mediaobject>
>     </screenshot>
>     <screenshot>
>       <mediaobject>
>         <imageobject>
>           <imagedata fileref="images/image2.gif" format="gif"/>
>         </imageobject>
>       </mediaobject>
>     </screenshot>
> 
> Is there any way of doing this without the dedication element?  The images
> represent company logos, and that's why I want them at the top, below the
> title.  Also,  the above also generates images that are stacked up
> vertically.  Is there any way to get them in a row (i.e. without a break at
> the end of the image?
> 
> Thanks.
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>  Jeff Rancier                         jeff.rancier@softechnics.com
> 
>  SofTechnics, Inc.                Tel   (315) 706-1111
>  7063 Interstate Island Rd.  Fax  (315) 706-9999
>  Syracuse, NY 13209          http://www.softechnics.com
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