Re: [docbook-apps] Footer odd/even page problem when chapters do not begin on an odd page

[Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not quite clear on this problem.  You said:
>
>> - My book has parts and my first part falls on an odd page (left).
>
> In my experience, odd pages are right-hand pages, so I don't understand what
> you mean here.

Hmm, sorry, I messed up the explanation.


> I think you mean that your first part falls on a left-hand page, and you
> want it to be numbered with "1", with the first right-hand page after that
> numbered as "2", and so forth.  Is that right?

That's exactly right, although the issue is not with the numbering:
the left-hand page is numbered with "1" and the right-hand page is
numbered with "2" already.

The issue is that the footer layout is reversed.


> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ivan Ristic" <ivan.ristic@gmail.com>
> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Footer odd/even page problem when chapters do
> not begin on an odd page
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
>
>> Did you customize the page-sequence-masters as well?
>
> No, I did not -- my knowledge of the stylesheets is limited and I
> didn't know what to try next.
>
> With the customisation, per your advice, I managed to have chapters on
> auto and the footers rendered correctly.
>
> When I attempted to do the same for all book parts, however, I
> encountered another problem:
>
> - My book has parts and my first part falls on an odd page (left).
>
> - The first part is just a single page, and the second page in the
> book is the first page of the first chapter. It falls on an even page
> (right).
>
> - The initial.page.number template will return 1 for the first page of
> the first part because it's the first page of the book (the front
> matter uses roman numerals)
>
> - The footer of the second page (even) will be rendered using the odd
> layout. (And, from then on, all the pages will have the footer layouts
> reversed.)
>
> I hope that was clear, but I'll be happy to send you the PDF extract
> or generate a standalone example that replicated the problem.
>
> I've found that if I override the initial.page.number template to
> return 'auto' for parts, the footers get rendered correctly (but the
> numbering is not reset, of course).
>
> It looks as if the assumption somewhere is that the first book page
> will always be on an odd page. Is that correct?
>
>
>> The default in
>> fo/pagesetup.xsl for body page sequences uses:
>>
>> <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="body">
>> <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
>> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="blank"
>> blank-or-not-blank="blank"/>
>> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="body-first"
>> page-position="first"/>
>> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="body-odd"
>> odd-or-even="odd"/>
>> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference
>> odd-or-even="even">
>> <xsl:attribute name="master-reference">
>> <xsl:choose>
>> <xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0">body-even</xsl:when>
>> <xsl:otherwise>body-odd</xsl:otherwise>
>> </xsl:choose>
>> </xsl:attribute>
>> </fo:conditional-page-master-reference>
>> </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
>> </fo:page-sequence-master>
>>
>> You should customize it to remove the reference to "body-first" when
>> page-position="first", because it will be applied to any first page,
>> regardless of page number.
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> bobs@sagehill.net
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ivan Ristic" <ivan.ristic@gmail.com>
>> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:23 PM
>> Subject: [docbook-apps] Footer odd/even page problem when chapters do not
>> begin on an odd page
>>
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have written a customisation layer for a book written in DocBook 5
>>> and I've encountered one problem that I can't solve. I think the issue
>>> is with the stylesheets. I am converting the book into PDF. I am using
>>> the 1.74.0 ns stylesheets, but I've verified that the same problem
>>> occurs with the latest version.
>>>
>>> In my book I don't want the chapters to begin on odd pages, so I've
>>> added the appropriate styling to avoid blank pages (as well as the
>>> styling to fix the page numbering).
>>>
>>> My book is double sided with asymmetric footers. On an odd page, the
>>> page number is on the right. On an even page, the page number is on
>>> the left.
>>>
>>> However, when a chapter begins on an even page, the footer is
>>> rendered as if it were on an odd page. After looking at the stylesheet
>>> code, it seems to me that the problem is with the the "sequence"
>>> parameter (to footer.content), which can contain "odd", "even" or
>>> "first". The default stylesheet seems to assume an odd page when the
>>> value is "first". Hence the problem.
>>>
>>> Is there some other way to find out if a page number is odd?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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>>> Ivan Ristic
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