Hi Bob,
Thank you for reminding me of the double.sided parameter. I set that back to
zero, and that eliminated all of the extra blank pages. When I tried to
customize the 'initial.page.number' template, the result was either the page
number of chapter one was set to 14 or, nothing. This is strange. So let's take
a different approach: with the double.sided parameter set to zero, how do I
force the first chapter to start on an odd page?
Thanks,
Ken
--- Bob Stayton <> wrote:
> 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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