Bob makes a great point here. with the titlepage spec file you can get
close, but not truly to the bottom of the page. Depends on how low you
want to go:).
Dick
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:27 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> I know of two methods of putting a block at the bottom of a page:
>
> 1. Use fo:footnote, which will put it at the bottom of the body region.
> You'll need to deal with the template named footnote-separator to turn off
> the rule line for the titlepage.
>
> 2. Put the content in the footer area. That requires messing with the
> geometry of the titlepage pagemaster and adding it to the xsl:choose
> statement in the footer.content template.
>
> I'm don't think either of them could be accomplished just using the
> titlepage spec file, though.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hamilton" <>
> To: "Remko Tronçon" <>
> Cc: "docbook-apps" <>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Block at bottom of the title page
>
>
> Remko,
>
> I don't know a way to directly say, "put a block at the bottom," but you
> can get the same effect by setting space-before in the appropriate place
> in the titlepage-content in your titlepage.xml file.
>
> The excerpt below will give you a title at the top of the page, then the
> author 4 inches down. You can adjust as needed to get the position you
> want.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Dick Hamilton
> http://managingwriters.com
>
> ======================================================================
> <t:titlepage t:element="book" t:wrapper="fo:block">
> <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">
> <title
> t:named-template="division.title"
> param:node="ancestor-or-self::book[1]"
> text-align="center"
> font-size="48pt"
> font-weight="normal"
> font-family="Arial"/>
> <author
> text-align="center"
> font-size="16pt"
> space-before="4in" <!-- set as desired -->
> font-weight="normal"
> font-family="Arial"/>
> </t:titlepage-content>
> ... rest of content ...
> </t:titlepage>
>
> ======================================================================
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:02 +0100, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm building a customized title page style. I have a block that I
> > would like to appear at the bottom of the title page, e.g.
> >
> > -------------------------
> > Title
> > ^
> > | (whitespace)
> > v
> > Author
> > -------------------------
> >
> > (where the author appears on the bottom of the page). What's the
> > easiest way of getting the block on the bottom of the page?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Remko
> >
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