Re: [docbook-apps] epub: does using images instead of chapter titles produce a valid epub file?

Sorry, I was thinking of FO output in my previous 
response.  You'll need something similar for the HTML output needed for 
epub. 

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


From: Bob Stayton 

Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:23 PM

To: Robert Nagle ; apps docbook 

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] epub: does using images instead of 
chapter titles produce a valid epub file?

Hi,

If I understand you correctly, you want a text title in the 
title element that is used in the TOC and xrefs, but you want to replace that 
with an image only on the chapter title page.

 

One way would be to put the mediaobject with 
role="graphic.title" in the info element of each chapter, and then process that 
in place of the title for the chapter title page.  You can do that by 
customizing the titlepage spec file for chapter to call a custom template, 
replacing:

 

   <title 
t:named-template="component.title"

 

with something like:

 

   <title 
t:named-template="graphic.component.title"

 

compiling this into a new titlepage XSL module, and then 
creating a custom template something like this (untested):

 

<xsl:template 
name="graphic.component.title">
<xsl:param name="node" 
select="."/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when 
test="$node/d:info/d:mediaobject[@role = 
graphic.title']">
     
 <fo:block>
        
<xsl:apply-templates select="$node/d:info/d:mediaobject[@role = 
graphic.title']"/>
      
</fo:block>
    </xsl:when>
    
<xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:call-template 
name="component.title">
        
<xsl:with-param name="node" 
select="$node"/>       
</xsl:call-template>
      
</xsl:otherwise>
    
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

This will fall back to the title element by calling 
'component.title' if there is no mediaobject with that role.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


From: Robert Nagle 

Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 12:39 PM

To: apps docbook 

Subject: [docbook-apps] epub: does using images instead of chapter 
titles produce a valid epub file?

Hi, there, I was planning a new ebook with my illustrator, and I 
stumbled upon something which I couldn't figure out. 

My illustrator 
wants to use graphics (i.e., a jpeg file) to serve as the title at the beginning 
of the chapter. 

How do you do that in the docbook way? 

In a 
previous thread, Bob said that you could use an empty title element to suppress 
the chapter title. 
http://markmail.org/message/gkokzarw6zxo3fiq?q=suppress+chapter+title+list:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook-apps

But 
I would need to have a way for the chapter title to appear in the TOC (and also 
in the epub navigation document? Does anyone know?) 

How can I use a 
graphic for a chapter heading and still have a nice looking TOC/epub navigation 
document? 

This is actually a common use case in ebook production; often 
an illustrator will want to embellish a chapter title and maybe integrate it 
with another graphic. So I'd like a robust solution to this kind of problem 
(hopefully one already exists!) 

Robert  

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