Re: [docbook-apps] When double-sided print, how to avoid chapter starting on odd pages?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

There are additional steps required because of the way XSL-FO uses page-sequences for book components like chapters, etc. and the multiple XSL-FO properties that control page numbering, so getting the boundaries between page sequences to work is the issue.. This thread describes other parameters and changes that need to be made.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200707/msg00093.html

It does not cover the thumb index because that's your own customization.

Bob Stayton
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/15/2020 8:39 AM, Bernhard Kleine wrote:

> Am 14.08.2020 um 20:38 schrieb Tony Graham:
> > On 14/08/2020 19:04, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> > > I am using docbook for an book on butterflies and moths. The design is
> > > in A4, the brochure print is half size. The color print becomes
> > > increasingly expensive, since I have to pay for colour pages even if a
> > > page is empty. Since I adopted to double-sided organization for the sake
> > > of the thumb index, the empty (ever) pages before a new chapter cause
> > > increased costs. How can I avoid these empty pages? Which template to
> > > change?
> > >         
> > It looks like you need to set the 'force.blank.pages' parameter [1] to
> > '0'.
> >
> >       
> Obviously that does not help very much: The page numbering and the thumb
> index will be on the wrong (inner) side doing this. There is to be
> something else: At first: if a page is empty, skip it; but secondly let
> the odd page following be an "even" one, and thirdly, adjust page
> numbering and thumb index accordingly.
>
> Regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>