Chapter 4. Print Customizations
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Chapter 4. Print Customizations

The DocBook XSL stylesheets has got more than 200 parameters which can customize some aspects of the layout very easily (like the page dimensions). This chapter shows customizations which go beyond simple parameter change.

Table of Contents

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Designing a Title Page
4.3. Styling Title Pages
4.4. Influencing the Leading
4.5. Hyphenating URLs
4.6. Creating Initials and Drop Caps
4.7. Numbering Part, Chapter, Appendix, and other Titles
4.8. Inserting Graphics on Title Pages

4.1. Introduction

Currently, there is only one stylesheet available for creating FO output: fo/docbook.xsl. To be exact, this creates XSL-FO 1.1 output which is compatible with decent FO formatters.

Furthermore, the DocBook FO stylesheets supports extensions which enables the formatter to implement specific features. These features go beyond the FO specifications like PDF bookmarks, indices, etc. Currently, the stylesheets support extensions from PTC's Arbortext, Antenna House's AXF, Apache's FOP, and RenderX's XEP.

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