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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] A lot of empty pages at the begining of a book
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:40:25AM +0200, jochen.gerstl@de.abb.com wrote: > > > > > Hello to all, > > I have at the moment a running solution, which converts a set of book's via > xml-fo to pdf. > > But I'am wondering, why I get a lot of empty pages at the start of the book > > So I explain what I get. The first page ist the cover page of the set. I > see the set title, a title picture and just under the picture the > copyright. > Afterwards I get an emty page (that is ok, because I am using the > double.sided parameter) > > Then I get one page with the TOC of all books in the set and afterwards > again an empty page. (Is it possible to enumerate the book titles as well > as the chapter titles ?) That empty page is expected, as each book starts on a recto page. There is currently no parameter to turn on numbering of books in a set. > Now I see the first page of the first book. I see the title and the title > picture. But now I get an not expected pagebreak. On the next side I see > again the title of the book and just underneeth the copyright. > Why this happens ? You are seeing the default verso side of a book titlepage. If you want to change that, you can customize the titlepage.templates.xml file as described here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitlePagePrint.html > > After that I get 2 (two !) empty pages. For what ? Is it possible to ommit > them ? This is a bug in FOP. See: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200210/msg00122.html > Now the dedication is printed out, followed by an empty page (thats > correct) and the toc of the book. > > After the toc I have again an empty page (that is correct) followed by the > toc of tables used in the book. How can I switch of that table-toc ? You already got that answer. > Then I get an emty page followed by the preface (is also correct) an > another empty page. > > And then the first chapter starts. I hope that covers all the extra pages! Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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