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Subject: RE: [xsl] Question about Page-Masters From: "Lehming, Thea" <THEA.LEHMING@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:45:05 -0400 |
Wendell, Again, thank you for your reply, but this doesn't seem to quite answer the query I had (perhaps it was not stated properly - I am a newbie to this and am still working on communicating exactly what it is I need to have happen). We know the idea of using an additional page-master, though *how do you get that to happen in a repeatable fashion*? Please see below: We have a document. Let's say that it is 5 chapters. Each of those 5 chapters is broken out into 5 sections. The first 4 sections of each chapter have a 2-column layout; the 5th section has a 1-column (full-page) layout. The 5th section *can* be on its own (new) page but it must have a 1-column layout. If you wouldn't mind, I would appreciate an explanation of a little more depth as to how a two page-sequence-master and two page-master format can help us with the above problem. Multithanks in advance. Cheers, Thea. -----Original Message----- From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:16 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Question about Page-Masters 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. ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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