Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Writing a customization layer for FOP columns

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:57:47AM -0800, Carlos wrote:
> Good Morning!
> 
> I found the setup.pagemasters template
> 
> How can I use left2 and right2 on my documents? Is that a parameter or a
> variable? If it's not, how I write the customization layer to use the right
> pagemasters?

The left2, right2, etc.  are the named page masters predefined in
DocBook XSL, along with several others.  They all end up as
masters at the top of each FO file.  The various templates
call the different masters in different contexts as
needed.  You use parameters to select single or double
sided, one or multicolumn, and set margins.  The parameters
are documented at:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.50.0/doc/fo/rn15.html

A sample fo customization file looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
                version='1.0'>
 
<xsl:import href="../docbook-xsl-1.50.0/fo/docbook.xsl"/> 

<xsl:param name="double.sided" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="column.count" select="2"/>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.inner" select="'1in'"/>
<xsl:param name="page.margin.outer" select="'0.5in'"/>
<!-- etc. -->
 
</xsl:stylesheet>
                  
The 'select.pagemaster' template selects the right page
master based on context and parameters.  In this example,
the double.sided parameters means different left and
right pages, and the column.count=2 means you get
left2 and right2 masters for your body pages.

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> 
> On 04/05/02 8:44, "Carlos" <carlos@cvc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I want to use something like the fragment below with my XSL-FO stylesheets.
> > 
> > <fo:root>
> >   <fo:layout-master-set>
> >       <fo:simple-page-master master-name  ="page-first"
> >                               page-height  ="8.5in"
> >                               page-width   ="11in">
> >           <fo:region-body     margin-top   ="5cm"
> >                           margin-bottom    =".5in"
> >                           margin-left      =".5in"
> >                           margin-right     =".5in"
> >                           column-count     ="3"/>
> >           <fo:region-before extent="6cm"/>
> >       </fo:simple-page-master>
> >   </fo:layout-master-set>
> > 
> > Which template should I modify?
> > 
> > Carlos
> 
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