RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with double-sided print output from xs l

["Thacker, Brad" <Brad_Thacker at jdedwards dot com>]

Hi Bob,

Jens' stylesheet fixed the problem - thanks for the reference! 

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: Thacker, Brad; 'docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with double-sided print 
> output from
> xsl
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:12:08PM -0700, Thacker, Brad wrote:
> > I'm having a problem getting my odd and even pages to 
> correspond to recto
> > and verso pages when I use the more recent fo/xsl 
> stylesheets (1.55.0 and
> > 1.58.1) for double-sided print output. With earlier 
> stylesheets (1.49 and
> > lower), the stylesheets adjust the combined number of title 
> pages and table
> > of content (TOC) pages to give an even number, so that the 
> body of the
> > document (i.e. the first page of a chapter) always starts 
> on an odd page.
> > Using the default stylesheets with no customization (other 
> than to set
> > <xsl:param name="double.sided" select="'1'"/>), the 
> stylesheets output 4
> > title pages, and if there is an odd number of TOC pages, it 
> pads the TOC
> > with blank pages to output an even number.  
> > 
> > With both the 1.55.0 and 1.58.1 distributions, however, the 
> stylesheets do
> > not seem to compensate for an odd number of TOC pages. Is 
> there a new
> > parameter that activates this option? If not, do you have 
> any idea what
> > might cause this problem?
> 
> There is not another parameter.  It works in XEP.
> This looks like FOP is not supporting the FO page-sequence
> property  initial-page-number="auto-odd".  The newer
> versions use that property instead of force-page-count="end-on-even",
> which FOP did support. I don't know why Norm changed it.  
> 
> Jens Stavnstrup posted a post-processor stylesheet that
> can patch fo files before feeding them to FOP:
> 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200208/msg00127.html
> 
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