Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL and page breaks

[Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net>]

On 8 Feb 2010, at 14:00, Peter Desjardins wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious here so I think I'd better ask. My current
>> client has a requirement that the table of contents for their material have a page break
>> at the end. Is there any option I can set to require this? I don't think there's an obvious
>> way to handle this using a processing instruction or the keep-together-... attribute. Am
>> I missing something obvious?
> 
> Years ago I was required to put a page break before certain sections
> in a document.  I used the dbfo-need processing instruction as
> described at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html.
> 
> I believe I set the required height to something very close to the
> available page height.  Each time it occurred, the following content
> would be pushed to the next page.
> 
>     <?dbfo-need height="7.5in" ?>
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Peter

Thanks Peter

Given that this is generated content, the sensible place to put this would be in a customisation 
of the template that  generates the table of contents I assume?

cheers

nic
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