Re: [xsl] XSL-FO: Exclude page numbering on some pages

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2006-05-04 12:40 -0400, Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response.  So basically I should:
>
> 1) Create a new simple page master for the revision pages
>         <fo:simple-page-master
> master-name="RevPage"></fo:simple-page-master>
>
> 2) Create a new page master sequence:
>         <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="RevIndex">
>                 <fo:single-page-master-reference
> master-reference="RevPage">
>                 </fo:single-page-master-reference>
>         </for:page-master-sequence-master>
> 3) Create a new fo:page-sequence for the RevIndex
>
> Let me know if I am on the right track or not.

Yes, you are on the right track Nadia, but there is a small problem 
with your proposed use of objects above.

If your index were more than one page, then your RevIndex above would 
run out of page geometries because you have only a 
single-page-master-reference.  Use repeatable-page-master-reference 
to support more than one page.

And, more simply, one is not obliged to point page-sequence only to 
page-sequence-masters ... you can simplify the above by pointing 
directly to the desired page geometry that is being repeated by having:

    <simple-page-master maser-name="RevPage">....

    <page-sequence master-reference="RevPage">....

... there is no need to always create a page-sequence master.  I tell 
my students to only use one when there is a need to describe 
subsequences of patterns of page geometries ... though there is 
nothing technically wrong with the extra layer of indirection to the 
same thing as you've suggested above.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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