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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Ending a book with "Notes"
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Camille Bignis wrote: > Hello, > > For printing reasons, printed books usually ends with a few to many > blank pages. > > Has someone come up with a solution with DocBook to fill those blank > pages with a "Notes" header? This issue illustrates one of the problems with the FO architecture: the stylesheet cannot do much about page counts. The "Notes" pages are usually the leftover pages of a print signature. A book is typically printed in 16- or 32-page signatures (large sheets of paper printed 16- or 32-up). If your typesetting does not end evenly on a signature boundary, you get blank pages for the rest. Some publishers print "Notes" on those pages so they don't seem totally useless. But pagination of a DocBook book takes place after the DocBook stylesheet has completed its work and passed the result to an FO processor. Only the FO processor knows how many pages are in the book, and whether they end on a signature boundary. So the question is, can an FO processor be instructed to keep issuing pages (of a certain "blank" page-master) modulo the signature size? The "force-page-count" property does not take an integer or expression, just variations on even or odd. The "initial-page-number" property takes an integer, but that would have to be on a page sequence that follows the last one, which then would not be last. So I don't see how to do it with the current FO properties. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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