Hi Jeff,
If you are using XEP for your XSL-FO processor, you can use the
rx:flow-section extension element provided by RenderX that is like a block
that supports multiple columns.
If you are using Antenna House, you can use their extension that allows a
axf:column-count property on an fo:block-container.
If you are using FOP, it is possible, but not easy. As you found, the basic
problem is that the page column layout is defined in the page-master, but
you can only change page-masters when you start a new page-sequence. But
chapters start new page-sequences, not tables.
There is a workaround for FOP. G. Ken Holman of Crane Softwrights Ltd. has
published a method for breaking up a single page-sequence into multiple
page-sequences with different masters. His Page Sequence Master Interleave
(PSMI) method introduces an intermediate XSL process to rearrange the pages
in an FO file. PSMI is described at
http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
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From: "Jeff Hooker" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 2:36 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [docbook-apps] PDF Output: calling a different page master for a
specific element
Hi all,
I'd like to call a specific page master for an element that contains a
specific attribute value. Essentially, if for long, narrow tables I want
to be able to call a three-column page master that prevents it from
flowing over a 100 pages when 33 would do. I'm having issues figuring out
how to call the new master, and a certain degree of difficulty
understanding the exact hierarchy I'm working with here.
I've been puzzling over the references in Docbook XSL trying to understand
how to apply them to this case, but have so far come up dry. Has anyone
written up a good explanation of this somewhere?
Cheers,
Jeff.
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