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Subject: Re: [xsl] Question about Page-Masters
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:46 -0400

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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