- From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:10:20 +0100 (IST)
- To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On Fri, September 24, 2010 12:03 pm, Mario Madunic wrote: ... > After having read a few older posts and a message from Eric A, I've come > to this conclusion (and please correct me if I'm wrong). That right/left > and recto/verso are not the same as odd/even. Odd/even has more to do with > the page number of the current page than whether it is on the left or > right page. Odd/even has to do with the page number. Or, to move further along the pedantry axis, with the 'folio', since the printed page number isn't always the order of the page in the finished document and there are some conventions for using multiple page numbers for one page (e.g., note 2 of Fig. 56 in http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#en-subheading1_6_3) Right/left and recto/verso are not the same as odd/even. Right/left has to do with the binding edge, which is not well defined in XSL 1.1 but should be better defined in XSL FO 2.0. Recto and verso mean the right-hand and left-hand pages, respectively, except when they don't. There's the Japanese usage I mentioned earlier, plus I checked a bunch of typography books, and of the five that had a glossary with 'recto' in it, all five said it was the right-hand page, and only one said it could also mean the front of the paper. I hope that hasn't muddied the waters even more. Regards, Tony Graham Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xmlroff XSL Formatter http://xmlroff.org xslide Emacs mode http://www.menteith.com/wiki/xslide Unicode: A Primer urn:isbn:0-7645-4625-2
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