docbook-apps

Hi Dave,

If you are seeing incorrect margins, then the problem is not in the templates you have
customized, but in the selection of the page masters as pages are generated. There is
one more thing you need to do for eliminating the extra blank pages in page sequences.
You need to customize the fo:page-sequence-master to remove the page-position="first"
item, since the "first" page master's layout matches the "odd" page master layout, but
that is not appropriate when the first page is even. Here is the original
fo:page-sequence-master for "lot" in the template named "setup.pagemasters" in
fo/pagesetup.xsl:


<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="lot">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="blank"
blank-or-not-blank="blank"/>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="lot-first"
page-position="first"/>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="lot-odd"
odd-or-even="odd"/>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference
odd-or-even="even">
<xsl:attribute name="master-reference">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0">lot-even</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>lot-odd</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
</fo:conditional-page-master-reference>
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</fo:page-sequence-master>

To customize this, your customization layer needs to have a template named
"user.pagemasters" that contains a definition of a new fo:page-sequence-master that is
the same as this one except it must have a new master-name and it must remove this
element:

<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="lot-first"
page-position="first"/>

You can also remove the element for "blank", but it is not necessary because the
no-force option prevents it from being used. With those gone, each page master is
selected only by "odd" or "even", so when the first page is even it should get the
even page master with those margins.

Then your customization layers needs to add a template named "select.user.pagemaster"
to choose your new master-name for "lot". See this reference for more details on
custom page masters:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html


Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net