DOCBOOK-APPS: How to generically control print-output style issues.

["Ashley J.S Mills" <ug55axm@cs.bham.ac.uk>]

I know this is FAQ but:

I want to create a number of page-breaks in some PDF output I am
creating because the output being produced by FOP is silly. 

So I need some kind of way to insert a page-break. I saw in Dave
Pawson's FAQ:

2. How to insert a pagebreak into docbook output

The question looks like it has been their for a while hence the
situation might have changed.

I know that inserting a page break is a style issue and hence
perhaps is not for the stylesheets or tools to provide but I don't
have PDF-Writer or whatever hence cannot change the output that is
being produced in any quick manner (assuming this is possible
with PDF-Writer or whatever) but I need a specific output.

What is the official stance on this? Are users expected to have
PDF-Writer or whatever to control style issues?

I could manually edit the FO output and insert some kind of page
break directive everytime I wanted a page break and will probably
resort to that if I don't get a useful response here.

I could insert directives into the XML that causes the page break
when the FO is produced. Can someone throw me a quick template
or hack that does this?

I don't get a useful response here I will work out how to do it
myself but I thought that somebody might be able to help me shortcut
this process and I think it is worth discussing since it seems to
come up quite frequently.

This brings me to a more general point which is that of style,
what does one do when one wants to adjust the PDF output of a
DocBook document slightly but one does not want to go through
the process of searching out the correct FO directive and
hacking FO files in order to produce the desired results? 

This seems unpractical when the production of PDF documents is
frequent enough and the results produced do not correlate with
the desired results.

Regards

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