How to remove blank pages between chapters using FOP

Hi Ken,
One way to do it is to set the stylesheet parameter
double.sided to zero, 
which is the default value.  That turns off the generated
blank 
even-numbered pages, but it also changes the headers and
footers and 
margins.

To just change the starting page, you can customize the
template named 
'initial.page.number' in fo/pagesetup.xsl.  When that
stylesheet returns a 
value of auto-odd, you get the blank pages.  If you change
that to 'auto', 
then it won't force the chapter starts onto an odd page. 
The template 
handles various elements in different ways.  If you just
want to change the 
behavior for any chapters after the first, then you just
need to change the 
first xsl:otherwise clause:

<xsl:otherwise>auto</xsl:otherwise>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobssagehill.net


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From: "Ken Van Mersbergen" <kenvm97yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] How to remove blank pages between
chapters using 
FOP


> How do I customize xsl stylesheets v1.68.1 to remove
blank pages between
> chapters when the output is a pdf from FOP? For example
Chapter 1 starts 
> on
> page 1 (a recto page) and ends on page 3 (a recto
page). I want Chapter 2 
> to
> start on page 4 (a verso page) and end on, for example,
page 10 (a verso 
> page).
> I don't always know if a chapter (or ToC, preface,
glossary, etc.) will 
> end on
> a recto page or a verso page. If it does end on a recto
page, I want the 
> next
> section to start on the following verso page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Van Mersbergen
> Tedras Global Solutions
>
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