Thea,
I guess you may have already gotten the answer for
your question. But just in case you still looking for
one then.
You dont need to use two page masters. Just check for
the last section in the chapter I am sure you can do
this using
<xsl:when test="position()='last'"> construct.
If the test comes to be true then use <fo:block
span="all"> otherwise just use <fo:block>
May be this will make it easier for you.
Good Luck !
Abhi
--- "Lehming, Thea" <THEA(_dot_)LEHMING(_at_)saic(_dot_)com> wrote:
Wendell,
Again, thank you for your reply, but this doesn't
seem to quite answer the
query I had (perhaps it was not stated properly - I
am a newbie to this and
am still working on communicating exactly what it is
I need to have happen).
We know the idea of using an additional page-master,
though *how do you get
that to happen in a repeatable fashion*? Please see
below:
We have a document.
Let's say that it is 5 chapters.
Each of those 5 chapters is broken out into 5
sections.
The first 4 sections of each chapter have a 2-column
layout; the 5th section
has a 1-column (full-page) layout.
The 5th section *can* be on its own (new) page but
it must have a 1-column
layout.
If you wouldn't mind, I would appreciate an
explanation of a little more
depth as to how a two page-sequence-master and two
page-master format can
help us with the above problem. Multithanks in
advance.
Cheers,
Thea.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:16 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Question about Page-Masters
Thea,
What he said.... another page sequence with another
page master is the easy
solution, if it gives you output you can live with.
The page model in XSL-FO is where you can really see
the stress between
layout requirements (which can be extremely complex)
and the need for a
complete specification up front in order to support
"lights-out" processing
(i.e. that requires no user intervention in a final
tweak phase).
This is why there's probably a market for an
interactive FO post-processor,
that is, an editing package that allows you to
display the results of FO
processing and tweak them on an ad hoc basis.
Problematic for content
management, if abused (in the old days editors would
sometimes keep
tweaking content well into production, but if you're
"single-sourcing" to
multiple outputs this is Bad), but enough of a
requirement that people want
to do it anyway....
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:04 PM 8/27/2003, J.Pietschmann wrote:
Lehming, Thea wrote:
In my particular case, the last section of a
chapter needs to be *one*
column before going to the next chapter which
should be 2 columns, in
a multiple chapter document. Any ideas?
If the last sections of the chapters go into their
own page sequence,
just use a page master with one column for them and
a two-column page
master for everything else. If you want to start
the last section right
after the section before, possibly on a two-column
page, or if you want
to float the last bit of content from the section
before the last
section onto the one-column page where the last
section starts (odd
thoughts), then there is no easy way to do this.
The hard ways
all involve estimating how text fills space and
have to be
tailored to your content, if this is possible at
all.
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