Re: Issue with title page

Haha, I was gonna object and claim I use xsltproc without seeing this
problem but luckily I double checked first. I do use xsltproc, and it seems
I have this problem too just never realized.

Thanks Bob!

/Oskar


Den tors 21 nov. 2019 kl 00:18 skrev Bob Stayton <[email protected]>:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> This appears to be a problem with xsltproc.  When I process your files
> with xsltproc, I get 12pt.  When I process your files with Saxon 6.5, I get
> 24.8832pt for the title.
>
> The DocBook XSL template that is not being handled properly by xsltproc is
> this one from fo/titlepage.templates.xsl:
>
> <xsl:template match="title" mode="book.titlepage.recto.auto.mode">
>   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="book.titlepage.recto.style"
> text-align="center" font-size="24.8832pt" space-before="18.6624pt"
> font-weight="bold" font-family="{$title.fontset}">
>     <xsl:call-template name="division.title">
>       <xsl:with-param name="node" select="ancestor-or-self::book[1]"/>
>     </xsl:call-template>
>   </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The properties on fo:block start with the attribute-set named
> "book.titlepage.recto.style", which is defined in fo/titlepage.xsl.  That's
> where the 12pt font-size is specified.
>
> But the fo:block also has an explicit font-size="24.8832pt" which comes
> from the titlepage.templates.xml specification XML file for titles and is
> compiled into the stylesheet module titlepage.templates.xsl.  According to
> the XSL spec, an explicit property should override a property in an
> attribute-set.  But xsltproc fails to do that.  The Saxon 6.5 processor
> handles this correctly.
>
> The workaround for you is either to switch to Saxon 6.5, or to modify that
> attribute-set in your customization layer:
>
> <xsl:attribute-set name="book.titlepage.recto.style">
>   <xsl:attribute name="font-size">24pt</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:attribute-set>
>
> That attribute-set was created a long time ago, and I would consider it
> obsolete because all of its properties should be overridden by the explicit
> properties set by titlepage.templates.xsl.  However, it is affecting your
> output because xsltproc does not handle the override properly.
>
> Bob [email protected]
>
> On 11/20/2019 3:04 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm unable to change the font size of title page element. What ever I
> try to do, title/subtitle gets formatted with 12pt font size.
>
> I run the build by using (the attached) Makefile which calls xsltproc,
> xmllint and finally fop to produce the PDF (and RTF) output.
>
> Here is what the FO file looks like:
> ...
>     <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
>       <fo:block id="idm45517912259648">
>         <fo:block>
>           <fo:block>
>
>             <!-- HERE IS THE TITLE -->
>             <fo:block text-align="center" font-size="12pt" space-
> before="18.6624pt" font-weight="bold" font-family="sans-
> serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats">
>               <fo:block xmlns:axf="
> http://www.antennahouse.com/names/XSL/Extensions" <http://www.antennahouse.com/names/XSL/Extensions> keep-with-
> next.within-column="always" hyphenate="false">MyBook</fo:block>
>             </fo:block>
>
>             <!-- HERE IS THE SUBTITLE -->
>             <fo:block text-align="center" font-size="12pt" space-
> before="15.552pt" font-family="sans-serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" font-
> weight="bold">Subtitle</fo:block>
>             <fo:block space-before="2in" font-family="sans-
> serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" font-weight="bold" font-size="12pt" text-
> align="center">
>               <fo:block>
>                 <fo:block>Thomas Trepl</fo:block>
>               </fo:block>
>             </fo:block>
>           </fo:block>
> ...
>
> I have no idea where the "12pt" for title and subtitle come from.
> Shouldn't it be something like 24.8832pt or such by default?
>
> Any ideas what else i can check?  And sorry for bugging you since this
> isn't really a fop-issue but more a docbook-stylesheet thing but i
> don't know where to go so i hope you might have seen that already and
> know a solution.
>
> System:		ArchLinux
> Docbook-XSL:	1.79.2
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
>
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