Re: [docbook-apps] a couple quick questions re: docbook -> FO -> PDF

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>]

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At 04:55 20/5/03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>1) how to automatically push a new book/chapter to the next odd
>    page.
>
>    there's lots of stuff regarding "auto-odd" in fo/pagesetup.xsl
>    but i don't see how to do this right offhand.  (i've selected
>    double-sided output.)

There are two controls for this in FO: initial-page-number="auto-odd" 
starts the page-sequence on an odd page, and force-page-count="end-on-even" 
forces this page-sequence to end on an even page.  I recommend using both.

How?  Good question.  The DocBook XSL stylesheets aren't really 
parameterized for this; there probably should be a 
start.components.on.recto parameter or something.  I did it with a horrible 
hack, taking advantage of the fact that in XSLT you can always create an 
attribute in an element if there's been no content yet:

   <xsl:template match="*" mode="running.head.mode">
     <xsl:param name="master-reference" select="'unknown'"/>
     <xsl:param name="gentext-key" select="name(.)"/>

     <xsl:attribute name="force-page-count">
       <xsl:text>end-on-even</xsl:text>
     </xsl:attribute>

     <!-- rest of running.head.mode template from DocBook XSL -->
   </xsl:template>

HTH,
Chris
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