Hi Ken,
One way to do it is to set the stylesheet parameter double.sided to zero,
which is the default value. That turns off the generated blank
even-numbered pages, but it also changes the headers and footers and
margins.
To just change the starting page, you can customize the template named
'initial.page.number' in fo/pagesetup.xsl. When that stylesheet returns a
value of auto-odd, you get the blank pages. If you change that to 'auto',
then it won't force the chapter starts onto an odd page. The template
handles various elements in different ways. If you just want to change the
behavior for any chapters after the first, then you just need to change the
first xsl:otherwise clause:
<xsl:otherwise>auto</xsl:otherwise>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Van Mersbergen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] How to remove blank pages between chapters using
FOP
> How do I customize xsl stylesheets v1.68.1 to remove blank pages between
> chapters when the output is a pdf from FOP? For example Chapter 1 starts
> on
> page 1 (a recto page) and ends on page 3 (a recto page). I want Chapter 2
> to
> start on page 4 (a verso page) and end on, for example, page 10 (a verso
> page).
> I don't always know if a chapter (or ToC, preface, glossary, etc.) will
> end on
> a recto page or a verso page. If it does end on a recto page, I want the
> next
> section to start on the following verso page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Van Mersbergen
> Tedras Global Solutions
>
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