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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: unwanted extra blank pages for title page only
At 05:26 AM 3/12/01 -0700, Deborah Greenberg Lidl wrote: >All -- Hi Debbie, >(Yes, this is a slightly modified repost. As Norm seems to be in an >answering mood, and as I never got any replies the first time 'round, >I thought I'd repost :-) Hmmm, you have to sacrifice a goat(herd) to the SGML gods first :-) >I'm using DocBook 4.1 (SGML) / DSSSL 1.62 / OpenJade 1.3 / JadeTex 3.3. > >I'm creating a book, and have %two-side% set to #t to generate two >sided pages. Welcome to the club. Do you get your headers and footers alternating? >What I'd like to have in print versions is: >- title page (page 1) >- copyright page (page 2) >- table of contents (page 3) >- start of first part (page 5 or some other odd page) >- start of first chapter (page 7 or some other odd page) You too, eh ... >However, when I process with Jade/OpenJade and JadeTex, I get >- title page (page 1) >- blank page >- copyright page (page 3) >- blank page >- table of contents (page 5) >- start of first part (page 7 or some other odd page) >- start of first chapter (page 9 or some other odd page) > >When I change \cleardoublepage to \clearpage in jadetex.dtx, I get: >- title page (page 1) >- copyright page (page 2) >- table of contents (page 3) >- start of first part (page 4 or next available page) >- start of first chapter (page 5 or next available page) > >It appears that something in my toolchain is causing the title page and >copyright page to be treated as separate page sequences. So, changes >that affect simple page sequences (like \cleardoublepage) affect them >individually. > >As I understand the DSSSL stylesheets, in dbprint/dbttlpg.dsl, the recto >page of the title page is the title page, and the verso page is what >I'm referring to as the copyright page. Is my understanding correct? I get the book title on the recto title page, and the copyright on the verso title page, and I have not really hacked dbttlpg.dsl at all. >If my understanding is correct, is there something in the stylesheets >that is causing the extra blank pages when %two-side% is turned on? >Is there something that's causing the copyright page to be it's own >simple page sequence? > >And yes, I have tried installing JadeTex 3.5. It does NOT clear up >this problem. Where did you get JadeTex 3.5? >Many thanks, >Debbie >-- Regards ------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com) Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
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