Re: [docbook-apps] Suppressing blank pages and double-sided printing.

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi,
With initial-page-number="auto" and force-page-count="no-force", you are 
close.
But the effect you are seeing is coming from the page-sequence-master, 
which selects the "odd" page-master for the page-position="first" selector. 
For example:

    <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="body">
      <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
        <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="blank"
                                              blank-or-not-blank="blank"/>
        <!--
        <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="body-first"
                                              page-position="first"/>
        -->
        <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="body-odd"
                                              odd-or-even="odd"/>
        <fo:conditional-page-master-reference
                                              odd-or-even="even">
          <xsl:attribute name="master-reference">
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0">body-even</xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>body-odd</xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
          </xsl:attribute>
        </fo:conditional-page-master-reference>
      </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
    </fo:page-sequence-master>

In this example, I commented out the problem. With that line commented out, 
an even-numbered first page will get the "even" (left) page-master.

If you copy this big template to your customization layer and comment out 
those references to page-position="first", then it will work.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@free.fr>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:53 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Suppressing blank pages and double-sided printing.


> Hi,
>
> Last December I thought I had solved the problem of unwanted pages in
> double-sided output. However, it has been pointed out to me that in
> suppressing blank pages between chapters and other book sections, the
> right/left page sequence is screwed up... i.e. there are two right-side
> pages in a row. Further more, page numbers are skipped. So I've tried
> various combinations of modifying the initial.page.count and
> force.page.count templates. Here is what I observe:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> initial.page.number: auto
>
> force.page.count:
> end-on-even: Blank pages
>
> auto:      No blank pages
>      Page numbers skipped
>      Right/Left sequence bad
>
> no-force:    No blank pages
>      Page numbers correct
>      Right/Left sequence bad
>
> --------------------------------------------
> initial.page.number: auto-odd
>
> force.page.count:
>
> end-on-even: Blank pages
>
> auto:      Blank pages except
>      no blank last page
>
> no-force:    No blank pages
>      Page numbers skipped
>      Right/Left sequence bad
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I tried this with docbook-xsl-snapshot from 2007-02-09 and fop SVN.
> (I haven't used more recent docbook-xsl-snapshots as at some point
> procedures got messed up.) Any ideas on what I can do to suppress blank
> pages and have the right/left sequence correct? Is there some
> combination I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tav
>
>
>
>
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