Re: [xep-support] A3 pages and Landscape Pages

From: Douglas_Morrison@contractor.amat.com
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 07:25:52 PDT

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    Hello Alexander,

    Actually composer produces the effect I want, at least for landscape
    content within a portrait page.

    However, I think the real problem is how to use xsl to translate from the
    Docbook xml source to the sort of xsl-fo that you kindly provided.

    If xsl-fo (and xep) allowed nested pagesets then it would not be so much
    of a problem: at the end of one pageset it could resume with the previous
    pageset.

    If I identify a table as landscape by setting an attribute
    role="A3landscape" then I can see how to make that end the current pageset
    and start a new pageset, but what happens at the end of the table? How
    does it know what pageset to continue with? Actually, I suppose I could
    specify that with another attribute, or use a compound attribute such as
    role="A3landscapethenA4portrait".

    Another approach might be to use a processing instruction, such as
    <?changepageset type="A3landscape"> and then have another PI at the end of
    that section to return to A4portrait (or whatever).

    I am very new to xml, xsl, xsl-fo, xpath, xep, styler, composer etc. so
    would welcome any advice on the best approach to follow.

    Regards, Doug x2571

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    Hello Douglas,

    Page dimensions are defined on every simple-page-master. Therefore you
    just need to switch pagemasters appropriately (please find simple
    example attached). I can't say what happens in XSL-FO produced by
    Arbortext, but from your description I conclude that it just wrap
    "landscape" tables in container with reference-orientation="90"
    instead of using separate page-master. So the problem is in Arbortext
    Composer rather then in XEP.

    Best regards,
    Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
    RenderX

    Dcac> Most of my output is in A4 portrait mode, but I would like to be
    able to
    Dcac> output some pages in landscape mode and some pages on A3 landscape.

    Dcac> Using xsl from Arbortext Styler I can produce landscape content (a
    rotated
    Dcac> table or a rotated graphic and caption) within a portrait page (as
    defined
    Dcac> by the positon of the header and footer) but the XEP produced pdf
    has two
    Dcac> drawbacks:

    Dcac> i) if the content is longer than one page the overflow material is
    lost,
    Dcac> and

    Dcac> ii) the page is displayed in portrait mode, so the table appears
    sideways
    Dcac> (i.e. English text runs from bottom to top) on the screen. Using
    Arbortext
    Dcac> Composer to produce the pdf, the pdf has additional pages to hold
    overflow
    Dcac> and the page is shown in landscape mode, making the content easier
    to
    Dcac> view.

    Dcac> Is there any way of producing landscape pages (or landscape within
    Dcac> portrait, viewed onscreen as landscape) and A3 landscape pages that
    Dcac> revert back to A4 portrait at the end of the current element? The
    Dcac> requirement to issue overflow pages automatically is a
    'nice-to-have' that
    Dcac> could be dropped, at a pinch. (In a way, what I want is a nested
    pageset -
    Dcac> but that is not allowed in xsl-fo).

    Dcac> Regards, Doug x2571

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