Hi Dave, I might suggest a different approach that requires less customization. In this approach, the first chapter creates a page-sequence, and all chapter content is placed in that single page-sequence, with just forced page breaks in between. That lets you use the standard 'body' page-master without modification. It would still put a blank even page at the end of the last chapter, though. Here is what I tried:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"> <xsl:import href="../docbook-xsl-ns-1.76.1/fo/docbook.xsl"/> <xsl:template match="d:chapter[not(preceding-sibling::d:chapter)]"> <xsl:variable name="id"> <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="master-reference"> <xsl:call-template name="select.pagemaster"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:call-template name="page.sequence"> <xsl:with-param name="master-reference" select="$master-reference"/> <xsl:with-param name="content"> <!-- This chapter's content --> <fo:block id="{$id}" xsl:use-attribute-sets="component.titlepage.properties"> <xsl:call-template name="chapter.titlepage"/> </fo:block> <xsl:variable name="toc.params"> <xsl:call-template name="find.path.params"> <xsl:with-param name="table" select="normalize-space($generate.toc)"/> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:variable> <xsl:if test="contains($toc.params, 'toc')"> <xsl:call-template name="component.toc"> <xsl:with-param name="toc.title.p" select="contains($toc.params, 'title')"/> </xsl:call-template> <xsl:call-template name="component.toc.separator"/> </xsl:if> <xsl:apply-templates/> <!-- and subsequent chapters included in this page sequence --> <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::d:chapter"/> </xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:template> <!-- include subsequent chapters in first chapter's page-sequence --> <xsl:template match="d:chapter[preceding-sibling::d:chapter]"> <xsl:variable name="id"> <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/> </xsl:variable> <fo:block break-before="page"/> <fo:block id="{$id}" xsl:use-attribute-sets="component.titlepage.properties"> <xsl:call-template name="chapter.titlepage"/> </fo:block> <xsl:variable name="toc.params"> <xsl:call-template name="find.path.params"> <xsl:with-param name="table" select="normalize-space($generate.toc)"/> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:variable> <xsl:if test="contains($toc.params, 'toc')"> <xsl:call-template name="component.toc"> <xsl:with-param name="toc.title.p" select="contains($toc.params, 'title')"/> </xsl:call-template> <xsl:call-template name="component.toc.separator"/> </xsl:if> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Xmplar To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 4:06 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] Deleting blank pages in chapters I've been trying to delete blank pages in chapters so that the first chapter starts on an odd page and subsequent chapters start on even or odd. After having incorporated several customisations from information in other postings on the topic, the closest I get is being able to generate the correct 'odd-then-even' page sequence and have no blank pages between chapters, but the first page starts on page 15 (i.e. it follows on from the prelims page count) and the page numbers disappear from the footer. I have firstly specified a variable "chaptersrunon" which gives the options of generating the usual page sequence, plus the 'no-blanks' page sequence ("0" - all chapters start on odd page; "1" - chapters after chapter 1 start on even or odd page with no blanks). I have added a page-sequence-master called "bodycustom" to template 'user.pagemasters' and am calling that in template select.user.pagemaster, depending on the value of "chaptersrunon". I have also set the "bodycustom" page sequence in template 'initial.page.number' and template 'force.page.count'. I've experimented with the "bodycustom" page sequence by commenting out some of the conditional-page-master-reference lines, and by removing certain elements from the template 'initial.page.number' in <xsl:when test="starts-with($master-reference,'bodycustom')"> as I thought that the preface might have been interfering with the page numbering for the first chapter. I have attached my entire customisation (which includes removing blanks from the TOC and LOTs - that works nicely). Thanks, -- Dave Gardiner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
