Re: Alternating or conditional static-content?

At 2002-04-25 09:27 -0400, Pekka Kilpelainen wrote:
>I have a question about producing "varying static content" for pages,
>based on the position of the page or (the parity of) the page number. (I
>hope this is not a FAQ; I browsed only the 2002 archive of this list but
>did not find anything relevant.) An example of this is the convention of
>displaying, say, the names of authors at the top of even-numbered
>pages and the title of the chapter at the top of odd-numbered pages. Also,
>even page numbers are often aligned at the start (left) edge, and odd page
>numbers at the end (right) edge of a page.
>
>My question is:
>
>(1) is it possible to desrcibe such alternating or conditional
>static-content with the current XSL page model (simple-page-master).

Yes, by creating a <page-sequence-master> whose 
<repeatable-page-master-alternatives> child includes two 
<conditional-page-master-reference> children testing odd-or-even="odd" and 
odd-or-even="even", each pointing to different <simple-page-master> page 
geometries naming their respective <region-before> or <region-after> master 
names differently.

You would in each <page-sequence> point to the one <page-sequence-master> 
and supply as many definitions for <static-content> as you have differently 
defined perimeter regions.  The block region named in the page geometry 
tested for "odd" would use text-align-last="end".

>(2) is it possible to create such alternating or conditional
>static-content with some current XSL formatter (like FOP or
>Passive TeX or XEP)?

Yes for XEP and AntennaHouse ... I don't know for FOP or PassiveTeX.

I hope this helps.

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


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