Hi Bart,
Aha!
Thankyou.
I knew it had to be a pretty standard request.
... see, i had this idea, if i post to enough mailing lists i can get other
people to do my work for me, ;-|
How to define my own region got me for a while. But then i found your
tutorial. Within seconds I had it. I like that tutorial. It's got diagrams.
I like diagrams. I'm a simple soul deep down.
Thanks much for going that extra step to confer the benefit of your superior
understanding upon this wayward rapscallion.
At last I've got it. Soon I'll be a world class online typographer, right?
{:-)
--
Best,
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Locanthi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: A brain teaser
> the xsl:fo way of doing what you want isn't pretty, but it's a very
> standard wish in book formatting. after you figure it out, you will
> wonder how else it could have been defined.
>
> the tutorial chapter below pretty much explains how to do this:
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/bk/ch05.html#d0e1929
>
> in the code submitted already, i would have used page-position="rest"
> rather than odd-or-even="any", but i don't think it would make a diff.
>
> the hard part has to do with the so-called "static content" written to
> the page masters, eg:
>
> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="book">
> <fo:static-content flow-name="first-before">
> <fo:block text-align="center">
> first page header goo
> </fo:block>
> </fo:static-content>
> <fo:static-content flow-name="rest-before">
> <fo:block text-align="center">
> other page header goo
> </fo:block>
> </fo:static-content>
> ...
> where "first-before" and "rest-before" talk about areas on the two page
> masters you define.
>
> > Perhaps i should have explained, the subsequent headers are different
from
> > the first header.
> >
> > The first version, Magnus' version, produced two documents. The first
one
> > had the special headers and the second one had the ordinary ones.
> >
> > The second version does the same. I don't see how the content of the
headers
> > will change. Granted, the margin size will change. But I need what is
> > contained in the header on the subsequent pages to be different from
what is
> > at the top of the first page. Are we to conclude that it can't be done?
> >
> > I'm concluding this can't be done. {:(
> >
> > --
> > Best,
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: A brain teaser
> >
> >> <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="standard">
> >> <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
> >> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference page-position
> >>="first" master-name="first"/>
> >> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference
> >>
> > odd-or-even="any"
> >
> >>master-name="main"/>
> >> </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
> >> </fo:page-sequence-master>
> >> </fo:layout-master-set>
>
>
