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Re: Double Side and FOP with 1.53
- From: Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- Cc: Togan Muftuoglu <toganm at users dot sourceforge dot net>,Docbook-apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Double Side and FOP with 1.53
Don't count on changes in FOP any time soon. Instead of going back
to
1.52.2 as Togan mentions, he could do some post-processing e.g. using the
saxon extension function saxon:next-in-chain.
I havn't used it my self yet, but will try later !
Regards
Jens
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Paul Grosso wrote:
> At 16:51 2002 08 12 +0200, Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
> >Togan,
> >
> >Apprently both since Fop appently does not understand the attribute
> >initial-page-number. In 1.52.2 Norm used the attribute force-page-count
> >which works under FOP.
>
> I really don't know much about what FOP supports here, and Jens is
> probably right in what he says, but if so, that seems like an odd
> decision on the part of the FOP people.
>
> Because initial-page-number is a basic conformance level property
> and force-page-count is an extended conformance level property.
>
> And you can almost always accomplish all you want using
> initial-page-number (see the auto-odd and auto-even values)
> in a more natural way that with the force-page-count. (I
> say more natural because what one is usually trying to do
> is ensure a certain page-sequence starts on a certain parity
> page, and using the previous page-sequence's page count to
> do this is definitely a less natural way of doing this.)
>
> So I support Norm's switch to using initial-page-count, and
> I'd urged the FOP folks to support initial-page-count if they
> don't already.
>
> paul
>
> >Regards
> >
> >Jens
> >
> >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have tried with Saxon, Xalan using a custom style sheet using with
> >> parameters on the command line but with Fop 20.4 along with XSL
> >> stylesheets 1.53.0 I can not get a double sided print outpout.
> >>
> >> Is this something with the Stylesheets or with Fop ?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Togan Muftuoglu
> >>
>