db5, fo output, page breaks

[davep]

Chapter based book, I'm getting 'too many' page breaks (chapters less
than a page long).
There appears to be no pagination based params to control this?

Convert to article to reduce length? Is that the only option please?

TiA

[Peter Desjardins]

Have you set force.blank.pages to 0? I have some short chapter-based
books and I found they looked more sensible after removing the empty
pages.

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/force.blank.pages.html

Peter

Post by davep
Chapter based book, I'm getting 'too many' page breaks (chapters less
than a page long).
There appears to be no pagination based params to control this?
Convert to article to reduce length? Is that the only option please?
TiA
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[davep]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:07:16 -0400

Post by Peter Desjardins
Have you set force.blank.pages to 0? I have some short chapter-based
books and I found they looked more sensible after removing the empty
pages.
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/force.blank.pages.html
Peter

Yes... but it wouldn't help with tiny chapters? I'm thinking I have to
go to article layout, not a big job for this piece.

Thanks Peter.

Post by Peter Desjardins

Post by davep
Chapter based book, I'm getting 'too many' page breaks (chapters
less than a page long).
There appears to be no pagination based params to control this?
Convert to article to reduce length? Is that the only option please?
TiA
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regards
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Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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[Jirka Kosek]

Post by davep
Yes... but it wouldn't help with tiny chapters? I'm thinking I have to
go to article layout, not a big job for this piece.

Yes, each chapter starts a new fo:page-sequence, so you have to convert
book->article and chapter->section before processing to get desired output.

Jirka
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[davep]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:01:52 +0200

Post by Jirka Kosek

Post by davep
Yes... but it wouldn't help with tiny chapters? I'm thinking I have
to go to article layout, not a big job for this piece.

Yes, each chapter starts a new fo:page-sequence, so you have to
convert book->article and chapter->section before processing to get
desired output.
Jirka

Done, not a big job. Easier once I added the front page processing :-)
I'm sure there's a good reason for new page-sequence.

Tks Jirka.