<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >boilerplate_before_title</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="makethumbs documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="makethumbs variable reference" HREF="r15.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="boilerplate_after_title" HREF="r42.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="boilerplate_end_of_page" HREF="r163.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >makethumbs documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r42.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r163.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="REF.BOILERPLATE-BEFORE-TITLE" ></A ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_before_title</CODE ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN104" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_before_title</CODE >, <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_index_before_title</CODE >, <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_slideshow_before_title</CODE > -- text to be inserted before the page title</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN112" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" > boilerplate_before_title="" boilerplate_index_before_title="" boilerplate_slideshow_before_title="" </PRE ><A NAME="REF.BOILERPLATE-INDEX-BEFORE-TITLE" ></A ><A NAME="REF.BOILERPLATE-SLIDESHOW-BEFORE-TITLE" ></A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN116" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > This variable can be used to have template text inserted on all HTML pages created, before the page title (the <<CODE CLASS="SGMLTAG" >H1</CODE >> etc. tag). This text will come directly after the opening <<CODE CLASS="SGMLTAG" >BODY</CODE >> tag and before the title tag. These variables are useful if you have a defined site style with template markup that go at the top and bottom of pages—add the template code here (or point to a file including the template) and all the HTML files <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > creates will contain your templates. </P ><P > As with <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_end_of_page</CODE >, <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_after_title</CODE >, and <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_insert_in_head</CODE >, this variable has three versions. <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_before_title</CODE > will be used for all HTML pages. If you want to add something to the top of only your <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >index pages</I ></SPAN >, you should use <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_index_before_title</CODE >; to change the top of the <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >slideshow pages</I ></SPAN > use <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_slideshow_before_title</CODE >. </P ><P > Note that the <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_before_title</CODE > variable will not be used if <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_index_before_title</CODE > or <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_slideshow_before_title</CODE > is set—those will take precedence for their given sets of pages. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN135" ></A ><H2 >See also</H2 ><P > <A HREF="r17.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >body_tag</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > , <A HREF="r42.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_after_title</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > , <A HREF="r825.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >index_page_title_start_html</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > , <A HREF="r1725.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >slideshow_page_title_start_html</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN154" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > Assuming the template code for your HTML pages is in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/www/htdocs/page-start.txt</TT >, you can have <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > start each HTML file with the text in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >page-start.txt</TT > with a <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >~/.makethumbsrc</TT > entry like this: </P ><DIV CLASS="INFORMALEXAMPLE" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN161" ></A ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > boilerplate_before_title="/www/htdocs/page-start.txt" </PRE ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r42.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r163.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_after_title</CODE ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r15.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >boilerplate_end_of_page</CODE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >