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RE: Problems with double-sided print output from xs l
- From: "Thacker, Brad" <Brad_Thacker at jdedwards dot com>
- To: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at caldera dot com>,"'docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org'" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:51:50 -0700
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with double-sided print output from xs l
Hi Bob,
Jens' stylesheet fixed the problem - thanks for the reference!
Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: Thacker, Brad; 'docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with double-sided print
> output from
> xsl
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:12:08PM -0700, Thacker, Brad wrote:
> > I'm having a problem getting my odd and even pages to
> correspond to recto
> > and verso pages when I use the more recent fo/xsl
> stylesheets (1.55.0 and
> > 1.58.1) for double-sided print output. With earlier
> stylesheets (1.49 and
> > lower), the stylesheets adjust the combined number of title
> pages and table
> > of content (TOC) pages to give an even number, so that the
> body of the
> > document (i.e. the first page of a chapter) always starts
> on an odd page.
> > Using the default stylesheets with no customization (other
> than to set
> > <xsl:param name="double.sided" select="'1'"/>), the
> stylesheets output 4
> > title pages, and if there is an odd number of TOC pages, it
> pads the TOC
> > with blank pages to output an even number.
> >
> > With both the 1.55.0 and 1.58.1 distributions, however, the
> stylesheets do
> > not seem to compensate for an odd number of TOC pages. Is
> there a new
> > parameter that activates this option? If not, do you have
> any idea what
> > might cause this problem?
>
> There is not another parameter. It works in XEP.
> This looks like FOP is not supporting the FO page-sequence
> property initial-page-number="auto-odd". The newer
> versions use that property instead of force-page-count="end-on-even",
> which FOP did support. I don't know why Norm changed it.
>
> Jens Stavnstrup posted a post-processor stylesheet that
> can patch fo files before feeding them to FOP:
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200208/msg00127.html
>
>
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