Re: [docbook-apps] How to remove page breaks between articles in book

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

Hi Michael,
An XSL-FO output file is structured into a series of fo:page-sequences, each 
with its own designation of a page-master to declare the page specs.  The 
default processing of article is to put each article in its own 
fo:page-sequence.  That always forces a page break between articles.

To prevent such page breaks, the XSL template matching on book in 
fo/division.xsl would need to be customized.  When it encounters a set of 
articles, it should start a single fo:page-sequence and apply-templates to 
all the articles inside that sequence.  But since fo:page-sequences cannot 
be nested, you would also need to customize the template for article in 
fo/component.xsl to remove its fo:page-sequence.

The templates for article titlepages do not insert page breaks, despite 
being named recto and verso.  The page breaks for article are normally 
handled by the fo:page-sequence.

Let me know if you need more help implementing this.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Michael Broschinsky" <mikebroschinsky@mail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:18 PM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [docbook-apps] How to remove page breaks between articles in book

> I have the following Docbook file:
>
> <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; 
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";>
>  <info>
>    <title>Family History Encyclopedia</title>
>  </info>
>    <article>
>      <title>Article the first</title>
>      <para>Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their 
> country. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created 
> equal. Four-score and seven years ago. Ask not what your country can do 
> for your, as what you can do for your country. Whatever the mind of man 
> can conceive, it can acheive.</para>
>    </article>
>    <article>
>      <title>Article the second</title>
>      <para>Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their 
> country. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created 
> equal. Four-score and seven years ago. Ask not what your country can do 
> for your, as what you can do for your country. Whatever the mind of man 
> can conceive, it can acheive.</para>
> </book>
>
> I process this file using the stock DocBook stylesheets to produce fo 
> output using this command line:
>
> C:\Programs>xsltproc --output book.fo --stringparam column.count.body 2 
> C:\Programs\docbook-xsl-ns\fo\docbook.xsl book.xml
>
> I then process using fop ver. 1.1 to get the pdf output.
>
> The articles each begin a new page. I poked around in the stylesheets and 
> found titlepage.templates.xsl which seems to default to haveing articles 
> always begin on a recto page. Is it possible to have the articles appear 
> consecutively?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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