From: Bob Stayton (bobs@sagehill.net)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 14:31:23 PDT
The Docbook stylesheets are not structured in a way to permit switching page geometries in the middle of a chapter. However, it can be done with post processing, so you should look at G. Ken Holman's Page Sequence Master Interleave solution:
http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
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From: Douglas_Morrison@contractor.amat.com
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] A3 pages and Landscape Pages
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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