Re: [docbook-apps] How to remove blank pages between chapters using FOP

[Ken Van Mersbergen <kenvm97@yahoo.com>]

Hi Bob,

I found a brute force way to handle this for now. Basically I am forcing a
blank page in front of the chapter that is preceded by a preface. I found this
in a previous posting:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200309/msg00194.html

Although it is a brute force way of handling it for now, it get's the job done.
I'll come back to it after I finish my other work in the customization layer.

  <xsl:template match="chapter">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="preceding::preface">
        <xsl:call-template name="blankpages" /> 
      </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
    <xsl:apply-imports />
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template name="blankpages">
    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="blank">
      <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
        <fo:block break-before="page">&#xA0;</fo:block>
      </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>
  </xsl:template>

Thanks,

Ken Van Mersbergen
Tedras Global Solutions


--- Ken Van Mersbergen <kenvm97@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> Thank you for reminding me of the double.sided parameter. I set that back to
> zero, and that eliminated all of the extra blank pages. When I tried to
> customize the 'initial.page.number' template, the result was either the page
> number of chapter one was set to 14 or, nothing. This is strange. So let's
> take
> a different approach: with the double.sided parameter set to zero, how do I
> force the first chapter to start on an odd page?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> --- Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ken,
> > One way to do it is to set the stylesheet parameter double.sided to zero, 
> > which is the default value.  That turns off the generated blank 
> > even-numbered pages, but it also changes the headers and footers and 
> > margins.
> > 
> > To just change the starting page, you can customize the template named 
> > 'initial.page.number' in fo/pagesetup.xsl.  When that stylesheet returns a 
> > value of auto-odd, you get the blank pages.  If you change that to 'auto', 
> > then it won't force the chapter starts onto an odd page.  The template 
> > handles various elements in different ways.  If you just want to change the
> 
> > behavior for any chapters after the first, then you just need to change the
> 
> > first xsl:otherwise clause:
> > 
> > <xsl:otherwise>auto</xsl:otherwise>
> > 
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Ken Van Mersbergen" <kenvm97@yahoo.com>
> > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:11 AM
> > Subject: [docbook-apps] How to remove blank pages between chapters using 
> > FOP
> > 
> > 
> > > How do I customize xsl stylesheets v1.68.1 to remove blank pages between
> > > chapters when the output is a pdf from FOP? For example Chapter 1 starts 
> > > on
> > > page 1 (a recto page) and ends on page 3 (a recto page). I want Chapter 2
> 
> > > to
> > > start on page 4 (a verso page) and end on, for example, page 10 (a verso 
> > > page).
> > > I don't always know if a chapter (or ToC, preface, glossary, etc.) will 
> > > end on
> > > a recto page or a verso page. If it does end on a recto page, I want the 
> > > next
> > > section to start on the following verso page.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ken Van Mersbergen
> > > Tedras Global Solutions
> > >
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