Re: page-number-restart? causes blank page?

[Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Um, no one made any comment about this.  I'm hoping it's because
everyone figured someone else would ;-).  If not, I'll never
mention it again... ;-)

Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Can anyone reproduce and/or explain the following behavior?  If
> I set page-number-restart? to #t on a simple-page-sequence, Word
> outputs a blank page on my OfficeJet printer.  I'm pretty sure
> it's not an attempt to get to a new recto page.  And the blank
> pages don't show up in a print preview.  Can I "fix" this?
> 
> Here's a sample document and stylesheet:
> 
> <!doctype book [
> <!element book - - (chapter+)>
> <!element chapter - - (title,para)>
> <!element title - - (#pcdata)>
> <!element para - - (#pcdata)>
> ]>
> <book>
> <chapter><title>Test1</title>
> <para>
> This is chapter 1.
> </para>
> </chapter>
> <chapter><title>Test2</title>
> <para>
> This is chapter 2.
> </para>
> </chapter>
> </book>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">
> 
> <style-sheet>
> <style-specification id="test">
> <style-specification-body>
> 
> (declare-characteristic page-number-restart?
>    "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::page-number-restart?" #f)
> 
> (declare-initial-value left-margin 	1in)
> (declare-initial-value right-margin 	1in)
> (declare-initial-value top-margin	1in)
> (declare-initial-value bottom-margin	1in)
> (declare-initial-value header-margin	0.5in)
> (declare-initial-value footer-margin	0.5in)
> 
> (declare-initial-value page-width       8.5in)
> (declare-initial-value page-height	11in)
> 
> (element book (process-children))
> 
> (element chapter 
>   (make simple-page-sequence
>     page-number-restart?: #t
>     (process-children)))
> 
> (element title
>   (make paragraph
>     font-size: 14pt
>     font-weight: 'bold
>     (process-children)))
> 
> (element para
>   (make paragraph
>     (process-children)))
> 
> </style-specification-body>
> </style-specification>
> </style-sheet>


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