[xep-support] initial-page-number forces blank page

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2004-02-05 15:53 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
>I've discovered that I get an unwanted blank page when I
>set a page-sequence's initial-page-number property to an odd number
>when the previous page-sequence ends on an odd number.
>
>I've included a complete FO example with two page sequences, each
>with a short block of text for a single page.  If the second page-sequence
>has initial-page-number  set to an odd number such as 5, my output is:
>
>1    First page text.
>2    Blank page.
>5    Second page text.
>
>If I set initial-page-number to an even number, say 6, I get:
>
>1  First page text.
>6  Second page text.
>
>I get the same behavior with XEP, FOP, and Antenna House.

Right ... because the force-page-count= on your first sequence is "auto" 
thus section 7.25.6 says "Force [the last page in this page-sequence] to be 
an even-page if the initial-page-number of the next page-sequence is odd."

>It appears the
>XSL-FO processors require the pages to alternate odd and even numbers,
>even when the numbering is being manually reset.

The specification says this, not the processors.

>This is not useful when you are
>producing single-sided output.  I've not found a property that turns off
>this behavior.  Is there one?

Just add force-page-count="odd" to your first page sequence ... because you 
were so kind to include a complete working example, I was able to see this 
change works in XEP and Antenna House: the end result has pages 1 and 5 
next to each other with no intervening page.

I hope this helps.

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


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