Fwd: Re: [XSL-FO] Re: pagination

Hi folks!

Herewith please find a requirement for including pages in the output of an 
XSL formatter that do not participate in page numbering.

I hope this helps with your new requirements.

................... Ken

>To: [email protected]
>From: "G. Ken Holman" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [XSL-FO] Re: pagination
>
>At 2003-07-22 14:31 +0000, martin_hofacker wrote:
>>I want to control the pagination indication of 2nd and further pages.
>>It should display the page-number of the page-sequence minus 1 (1st
>>page 'no entry'; 2nd page 'continuation 1'; 3rd page 'continuation
>>2'; and so on). I don´t know when the first page break will happen.
>>The first page contains a table with a unknown number of entries (it
>>depends on the entries in the database). Depending to your answer, i
>>don´t think that i can solve this problem with the fo:marker.
>
>I agree it cannot be solved with fo:marker, nor do I now believe it can be 
>solved with XSL-FO.  I had misunderstood your requirement as I thought 
>might have happened.
>
>Interestingly, students in my last class needed something not in XSL-FO 
>that would help here: an indication that a given page geometry not 
>participate in the page numbering scheme.  This would allow them to 
>alternate right-left pages of XSL-FO with the right pages counting 1, 2, 
>3, ... and the left pages not participating in the incrementing of the 
>page number.  Unfortunately, since the parity of the page is based on the 
>page number and not on the output page tally, this produces a bit of a 
>problem in setting up the page sequence since right/left is accomplished 
>using the parity of the page number, not the parity of the page tally.
>
>An additional requirement might be to access the running page number on 
>the left pages from either the page before (1B, 2B, 3B, etc.) or the page 
>after (Info-2, Info-3, etc.) in the static content of the page that does 
>not participate in page numbering.
>
>If such a feature were available in a future XSL-FO, then you could set up 
>a page sequence of a simple page master that does not participate in page 
>numbering as the first page, followed by all pages using a simple page 
>master that does participate in page numbering.  Then, you would be 
>showing the formatter-calculated page number at the top of the page but 
>reflecting the true page number of the page before.
>
>But ... such a feature is *not* yet available in XSL-FO.  My students were 
>to have already reported such a feature to the XSL working group for 
>consideration, and I do not know if they did so or not.  I will personally 
>forward this message to the XSL editors as further support of the 
>requirement for some mechanism to include pages in the output that do not 
>participate in the page numbering.
>
>........................ Ken


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