How to remove the setting to start new chapter always on the new page?

[justyna_i]

Hello,

as I understood from older posts, the setting that every new chapter starts on a new page is a default behaviour.
How to change it so that chapters would start immediately under previous content?
What attribute and what dita-ot plugin file should I look into?

[chrispitude]

Hi justyna_i,

Which PDF transformation are you using?

[justyna_i]

Hey chrispitude,
I am using PDF based on XSL-FO and I have a custom plugin based on org.dita.pdf2 plugin (I am transforming a dita bookmap).
From what I have been reading it would seem that there is a setting in generating page sequence and I have been experimenting with layoutmasters.xsl and layoutmaster_attr.xsl files. Also a bit with commons.xsl but so far no success.

[chrispitude]

Hi Justyna,

Does the issue occur with the default XSL-FO transformation, without your custom plugin?

[justyna_i]

Hi Justyna,

Does the issue occur with the default XSL-FO transformation, without your custom plugin?

Yes it does. I think I read somewhere on oXygen help page that this is a default behaviour for bookmap chapter. It always starts new chapter on new page (it starts new page sequence if I remember correctly).

[chrispitude]

Hi Justyna,

If the behavior occurs with the standard open-source DITA-OT, perhaps you could post your question on the DITA-OT Users discussion group:

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