Re: [docbook-apps] Suppressing blank pages between chapters withdouble.sided output

[Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@free.fr>]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:40 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi,
> I just copied your code below into a customization layer containing a copy 
> of the initial.page.number template from fo/pagesetup.xsl, and it works as 
> expected (no generated blank pages), with both FOP and XEP.  Can you 
> provide more details about how you made the change.
> 
> You can take a peek inside your generated fo file.  Look for 
> <fo:page-sequence> for a chapter, and see if it has an attribute 
> initial-page-number="auto".  If not, then your customization isn't getting 
> into the output for some reason.

Thanks for checking. Following your suggestion I've checked the fo file.
The initial-page-number attribute is set correct. The problem seems to
be with the svn version of fop. I just downloaded fop-0.90alpha1 and it
handles the pages as desired.

Tav