RE: [docbook-apps] Balanced last page in two column output

["David Cramer" <dcramer@motive.com>]

I haven't tried this or looked into how you'd do it in the docbook xsls
(or if it would work in fop), but I happened to remember that Ken has
posted this on the xep list, so it was easy for me to find again:
http://www.renderx.net/lists/xep-support/1119.html 

If you get it to work, please share the solution. It stuck in my mind
because a writer had asked about it wrt to our two column indexes. I
think it would be good default behavior for the stylesheets.

Thanks,
David 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Hamilton [mailto:rlhamilton@frii.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:25 PM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Balanced last page in two column output
> 
> I'm working on a stylesheet to transform a DocBook article 
> into the form the ACM uses for its SIG proceedings.  The 
> specification uses a two-column format and says, "Columns on 
> the last page should be made as close as possible to equal length."
> 
> After searching around some, I couldn't find any good 
> references on how to do this.  Does anyone know if it can be 
> done, and if so, how to do it?
> 
> If it makes any difference, I'm using DocBook 5.0, the 1.73.0 
> stylesheets, Saxon 6.5.3, and FOP 0.93 on Linux. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dick Hamilton
> 
> 
> 
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