Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A question about the Titlepage

[Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:20:09PM +0100, Mário Filipe wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm using Docbook to write my masters thesis. One of the requirements of
> the Faculty is that the title page has to have the folowing info (order
> is not important):
> 
> <Falculty name>
> <University name>
> <Faculty Department>
> <Title of the thesis>
> <My full name>
> <Descriptive text stating that the thesis is presented in the faculty to
> get a master degree in ...>
> <The name of my "guidance teacher">
> <Year of presentation>
> 
> I'm writing the thing as a book, and one of the possibilities that i
> believe i can use is to extend the <bookinfo> element, but then i would
> also need to change the stylesheets (at the time i'm using DSSSL because
> i still couldn't produce PDFs using XSL) to show this info. Is this the
> right aproach or do you believe that I should use some other.

Yes, you should write a customisation layer that changes what elements
get put on the front-page.


> P.S: I sent a message to the docbook mailing list about the possibility
> of having every page numbered using arab numbers, starting from the
> beginining. Does anyone here ever done something like that?

Yes.  Put the following in your customisation layer:

(define ($page-number-format$ #!optional (gi (gi)))
        "1")


You may want to look whether the book-article stylesheet from
AlcoveBook meets part of your needs.  You'll see there an example of
titlepage customisation, in addition to a tuning of other aspects of
the stylesheet (including the $page-number-format$ stuff above).

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/alcovebook/

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