Re: [xsl] backmatter and force-page-count

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

At 2013-09-25 11:11 +0000, Anneke von den Hoff wrote:
> The backmatter is to be the last page and it must be a left page.
>
> So when the number of pages is not even I need to create an extra 
> page before the backmatter page.
> I have done this by adding the attribute "force-page-count" = 
> end-on-odd,  to the content-sequence.
> This works,

Yes, it would.  You might also have considered setting the condition 
rather on the back matter since you described the property as being a 
property of the back matter.  You would have done this with 
initial-page-number="auto-even" and left the content page sequence untouched.

What you did isn't wrong, it is just a question of emphasis.  Is what 
you need to do a property of the content, or a property of the back matter.

> but the extra page contains the static content defined for the 
> content sequence, I would rather have the page to be blanc, or maybe 
> contain a footer.
>
> Does someone know if this is possible and how I can do this?

Yes, you can include in your page-sequence-master a condition of 
"blankness" that is tested before testing for pages that are not 
blank.  Then when the formatter engages any sequence of formatting 
objects that produces a blank page (that is, a page without any 
content flow), the page master alternatives will test true first for 
the blank page before the other pages.

  <page-sequence-master master-name="frames">
    <repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
      <conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="frame-blank"
        blank-or-not-blank="blank"/>
      <conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="frame"/>
    </repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
  </page-sequence-master>

Then you would have a page-sequence-master pointed to by the blank 
test that would have your choice of what you want to see on a blank 
page.  A common requirement is to centre a block of static text 
saying something along the lines of "this page intentionally left 
blank" (or "unintentionally left blank" I suppose if one wasn't 
expecting any blank pages!).

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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