DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DSSSL customization

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Tim Terlegård <tim@se.linux.org> was heard to say:
| 1 & 2 worked perfectly, thanks man!
|
|> > 3. The subtitle, how can I make it non-bold and change the font size? How
|> > can I make a linebreak in it?
|>
|>   Override that element in your local stylesheet, and add the
|> necessary formatting changes.  Look through Norm's modular DocBook
|> stylesheets for examples.
|
| That sounds so simple  :-)
|
| There are many "(element subtitle" sections in dbttlpg.dsl, have no idea why. 

Because there's one for each mode set-titlepage-recto-mode, ...

| But I took one of them

Well, the one you take really matters. If you want to change the one on
a book titlepage recto, make sure you say:

(mode book-titlepage-recto-mode
  (element subtitle
      ... your defn ...))

in your customization layer.

| What am I missing?

The mode, I bet :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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