Subject: Re: belle page From: José Carlos Ramalho <jcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:11:37 +0100 |
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > Brandon Ibach writes: > > > Is there a way to force the beginning of a chapter on an odd numbered > > > page (a page on the right side of the book ?). The frenche name must be > > > something like "belle page", but I don't know the english name :-( > > > > > Alas, there appears to be no way to force this in [Open]Jade, right > > now, as the simple-page-sequence object doesn't support any mechanism > > to do so. It seems we'd have to have support for the page object, or > > some type of non-standard extension to simple-page-sequence. > > you could add a non-standard attribute, surely? easier than the full > "page" object. > > > object that look horrendously complicated. Perhaps it would not be so > > hard to support the page object, coupled with a fairly simplistic > > non-standard (or just a subset of the standard) column-set object. It > > may be worth looking into, but of course, we'd need to have the > > experts in the various formatting backends give their opinions on the > > difficulty involved. > > I remember some years ago asking James Clark about this, and he > demonstrated to me that it would be a nightmare for the TeX backend, > because of things like footnotes, floats and sidebars which would all > come out of sequence. Still, maybe it could work. > > Sebastian > > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist I thought I was the only one. It seems there are other people with the same wishes... Can we start a discussion on that? jcr DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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