DOCBOOK-APPS: different page layouts for FOP output

[Jens Skripczynski <skripi at mail2003 dot skripczynski dot de>]

Hi,

I would like to create FOP layouts similear to "GURPS Basic Set"
(just in case somebody knows this book).

The book has 4 different page layouts.

1) same as standard output from FOP

2) test with sidebar

Tetxt .text................. ....... | Sidebar text
Tetxt .text................. ....... | with smaller
Tetxt .text................. ....... | font size
Tetxt .text................. ....... | 
Tetxt .text................. ....... | WITH  TITLES
Tetxt .text................. ....... | 
Tetxt .text................. ....... | ....
  

3) flowting text with 2|4 colums

      S E C T I O N   T I T L E

Floating text   | coulum2 float
cont. floating  | ....


The "floating" should work for text and tables.


Questions:

- Has anybody implemented layout 2 or 3 ?
- Is it hard (for a dobook/FOP greenhorn like myself) to write a docbook 
  compatible FOP layout extension that leads to the outputs above ?

Ciao

Jens Skripczynski
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