Not to worry, Bart, I didn't construe it that way. I stepped in because I am a nitpicker about factual accuracy, and ever since I made the "sense of rotation" error it's been bothering me, and I try to point it out. Of course I should just fix it. :-)
I should add that apart from Dave P and myself, Karen Lease also contributed, as did Nikolai Grigoriev from RenderX. I'm glad you find it useful. AHS -----Original Message----- From: Bart Locanthi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 16, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A brain teaser see later message.. apologies to you and anyone else who got the idea that i wrote or claimed to have written that tutorial. after pawing through other, otherwise excellent xslt references, it was that one that brought me out of the darkness regarding xsl:fo. thanks again to the dave pawson and arved sandstrom. may their work bring them fame and fortune when it gets to print. Stephen Clarke wrote: > Hi Bart, > Aha! > Thankyou. > > 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> >>>> >>
