Restore custom reference manual titlepage [SPR-10008]

[spring-projects-issues]

Phil Webb opened SPR-10008 and commented

The new gradle plugin that generates documentation creates a different title page than version 3.1.

The previous ant build supported a custom titlepage.xml file (something like [1]).

The main problem is the large list of authors that dominates the first page. Perhaps removing the <author> elements from the docbook source might be another way to fix this?

[1] https://github.com/cwensel/docbook-framework/blob/master/build-docbook.xml#L160

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[spring-projects-issues]

Chris Beams commented

Phil, totally agreed that the current presentation of authors is unsightly. I'm open to any change that fixes this. The custom titlepage could allow us to re-introduce the Spring leaf logo as well (I'm attaching a high-res version of that here, just in case you want to throw it in). In any case, can you make the change? Assigning to you, but do as you see fit.

[spring-projects-issues]

Phil Webb commented

commit 37b0277a8996d3f1154a40e307f529e45f25b02c
Author: Phillip Webb <pwebb@vmware.com>
Commit: Phillip Webb <pwebb@vmware.com>

    Restore custom reference manual titlepage
    
    Restore the custom title page of the reference manual in order to
    remove the large list of authors on the first page.
    
    Note: This change will require updating to version 0.1.7 of the
    docbook-reference-plugin when it is released.
    
    Issue: SPR-10008