Deleting blank pages in chapters

[Xmplar <info@xmplar.biz>]

I’ve been trying to delete blank pages in chapters so that the first chapter starts on an odd page and subsequent chapters start on even or odd. After having incorporated several customisations from information in other postings on the topic, the closest I get is being able to generate the correct ‘odd-then-even’ page sequence and have no blank pages between chapters, but the first page starts on page 15 (i.e. it follows on from the prelims page count) and the page numbers disappear from the footer.

I have firstly specified a variable “chaptersrunon” which gives the options of generating the usual page sequence, plus the ‘no-blanks’ page sequence (“0” – all chapters start on odd page; “1” – chapters after chapter 1 start on even or odd page with no blanks). I have added a page-sequence-master called “bodycustom” to template ‘user.pagemasters’ and am calling that in template select.user.pagemaster, depending on the value of “chaptersrunon”. I have also set the “bodycustom” page sequence in template ‘initial.page.number’ and template ‘force.page.count’.

I’ve experimented with the “bodycustom” page sequence by commenting out some of the conditional-page-master-reference lines, and by removing certain elements from the template ‘initial.page.number’ in <xsl:when test="starts-with($master-reference,'bodycustom')"> as I thought that the preface might have been interfering with the page numbering for the first chapter. I have attached my entire customisation (which includes removing blanks from the TOC and LOTs – that works nicely).

Thanks,

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Dave Gardiner

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