Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Increase default number of pagesequence masters/RFE

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:58:13PM +0200, Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
> 
> In a typical scenario, when using the book element as root to
> generate FO pages. Pagemaster sequences are typical selected by e.g. the
> named template pagesetup.xsl/select.doublesided.pagemaster, where one of
> two page-sequence-masters choices are returned either titlepage1 or
> twoside1.
> 
> The current design of division.xsl (rule template "book") uses titlepage1
> as the master-reference attribute when defining the current
> fo:page-sequence for both the "titlepage", the "preamble", and misc. table
> of contents.
> 
> The twoside1 pagesequence are used for the rest of the pages in the
> document.
> 
> 
> Allthough I could redefine book myself. I would think that most users have
> a different design for the titlepage (among other things header and
> footer) than for the rest of the pages which aso uses the titlepage
> pages-sequence, i.e. preamble, and toc.
> 
> 
> I would therefore suggest, that the pagesetup.xsl define an additional
> pagesequence master used specificly for these "pre document" elements,
> and then only use the titlepage1 for the actual titlepage.

This is a good idea.  Can you file an RFE at the
DocBook SourceForge site?  That's the best way
to get it into Norm's queue.

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